Motion and Forces Unit

This unit corresponds with unit F, chapter 14, of your hardbound MacMillan McGraw-Hill Science textbook.

Download the project sheets (click on appropriate link) in PDF* format and print them to record your results.

• Simple Machines Hunt record sheet
• Simple Machines Power Point guide and scoring rubric
• Rube Goldberg Machine directions

See our student-created PowerPoint presentations about Simple Machines!

Chapter studyguide (blank) is available:

• Chapter 14 Study Guide

Investigate further with these websites:

• EdHeads: Simple Machines - explore the House and Tool Shed
• Inclined Plane and Pulley - explore pulleys using brooms and rope
• The Wedge and Lever - can you try this at home?
• Screw, Wheel and Axle - extension activity
• Build a Hovercraft to explore the Laws of Motion
• Fantastic Contraption lets you create your own online machines!
• See a GLASS model of a steam engine!
• See a steam engine light a bulb!

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