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MyTabstart > Favorites Directory > Education > Simple Machines – Levers Worksheet Activity
This TabStart page will connect you to a wide variety of lessons and activities about simple machines, specifically levers. Below you will find a great number of different activities that science students of all learning styles will benefit from and enjoy. Additionally, you will find an abundance of colorful pictures, diagrams, and hands-on activities here.
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Simple Machines Worksheet Activities - This link on ABCTeach.com directs you to several fun worksheets about simple machines. There are crossword puzzles, a graphic organizer, and a word search.
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Levers Matching Activity with Photographs - Students are shown several photographs of different everyday items that function as levers. At the bottom of the page are names of different types of levers that need to be matched with corresponding pictures.
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Simple Machines Worksheet Activity - This worksheet asks student to list six types of simple machines and then sketch and write about them. This activity also explains simple machine vocabulary as well as compound machines.
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Lesson and Lab about Levers - This link directs you to a wonderful hands-on lesson about levers that discusses the three types and how they are used in everyday life.
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Marshmallow Catapult Activity - In this hands-on (and much-loved!) activity from the University of Illinois website, students build marshmallow catapults to study the principle of levers.
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Lever Activity and Worksheet - This PDF from the Colorado School of Mines website provides a lesson on the physics behind levers. The activity is well-illustrated and includes a follow-up worksheet at the end.
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"The Incredible Lever" Activity - This lesson on levers allows students to go outside of the science classroom to learn. In this activity a child uses a lever to lift an adult. This lesson is appropriate for students in kindergarten through 3rd grade.
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Exploring Simple Machine Levers Activity - This middle school lesson allows students to work in groups to learn about levers. Students build each class of lever. As a closing activity students participate in a contest to see who can build the most efficient lever.
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Diagrams of Three Different Classes of Levers - This link provides a diagram of three types of levers. This printable graphic can be made into a transparency for an overhead projector.
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Online Lesson about Levers - This link will take you to a lesson on the three classes of levers. The lesson has very clear language and animated diagrams to help the learner.