Does your coat have a zipper? Did you eat breakfast with a fork? You're
using simple machines!
From butter knives to seesaws, rolling pins to catapults, we are
surrounded by simple machines! Simple Machines! With 25 Science
Projects for Kids astounds readers with the ingenuity they already
possess and inspires them to look differently at the objects they use
every day.
What do a fork and an axe have in common? How do pulleys get a flag up a
flagpole? Simple Machines! introduces kids to the concept of
mechanical advantage and harnesses kid-power by inviting them to build
machines of their own design. This book also opens eyes and minds to the
diversity of machines in their lives, and sparks the imagination with
challenge, humor, and achievable projects.
Simple Machines! dedicates a chapter to each of the six simple
machines that were identified centuries ago: levers, inclined planes,
pulleys, screws, wedges, and wheels and axles. Kids develop analytical
skills as they figure out where force is applied and what kind of work
it generates. Essential questions, fascinating facts, and links to
online primary sources make student-led learning fun and productive!
Through science-minded STEM projects and investigative engineering
experiments, kids develop critical and creative thinking skills about
the roles simple machines play in our world and their importance to
human civilization.
Simple Machines! is part of a set of two Explore Technology books that
introduce young digital natives to the history, science, and engineering
of the tech world in which we live, using hands-on STEM activities,
essential questions, links to online primary sources and real-life
connections. The other title in this series is Robotics!
Nomad Press books integrate content with participation. Common Core
State Standards, the Next Generation Science Standards, and STEM
Education all place project-based learning as key building blocks in
education. Combining content with inquiry-based projects stimulates
learning and makes it active and alive. Nomad's unique approach
simultaneously grounds kids in factual knowledge while allowing them the
space to be curious, creative, and critical thinkers.
