Learning about Machines Author:Norris, Evans Learning About Machines gives you hands-on activities to help children learn about the the six simple machines: lever, wheel, pulley, inclined plane, wedge, and screw. Whether they're coloring, cutting and pasting, matching, listening to you read a favorite story about machines, or actually using and making simple machines, children will be inv... more »olved with the subject on several levels.
Activities help children practice skills in: observation, communication, making comparisons, ordering, and categorization. You get student activity sheets, teacher resource pages with ideas for special projects and literature references, and reproducible pages of a machine and work logbook, and picture cards.
Machine topics and concepts covered include: using a logbook as a learning tool, work is done when a force is used to move something over a distance, machines make work easier, some jobs need more work than other jobs, and more. Cute, yet accurate line art illustrations throughout. All 48 pages perforated for easy removal.« less