Get your whole science unit planned in minutes. Teach everything related to levers, wedges, screws, inclined planes, pulleys, and wheels & axles. Lessons, interactive notebook templates, task cards, critical thinking challenges, design challenges, and reading passages are all included.
This unit includes:
complete lesson plans with options to differentiate.
background information for teachers.
assessment options.
answer keys and suggested answers.
photographs of completed student examples.
opportunities to extend learning.
Canadian spellings and metric measurements.
ideas for how to use this resource in the classroom, online, or a mix.
a digital version of all the student pages that use Google Slides. You must download the PDF file and use the access link in the file to get your digital copy.
Basic Concepts: teacher-directed lessons to learn the basics of simple machines.
What Machine is This? Task Cards: 24 simple machine task cards to help students identify different simple machines. They are available in paper (both colour and ink-saving), Google Slides, and Google Forms versions. Comes with student recording pages, an answer key, and blank cards.
Simple Machines STEM Challenges: sixteen STEM tasks to help develop problem-solving skills while testing and working with knowledge from the unit.
Design a Carnival Attraction: Students use STEM skills to design a carnival attraction that uses simple machines in this open-ended activity. It comes with planning sheets, student examples, and a rubric.
Reading Passages: Ten reading passages designed to help replace the need for textbooks whether you are teaching in person or online.
Task Cards Review: 24 cards to use for practice or assessment to cover general concepts from the unit. They are available in paper (both colour and ink-saving), Google Slides, and Google Forms versions. Comes with student recording pages, an answer key, and blank cards.
Simple Machines Collaborative Poster: This colouring activity encourages students to work together to create a poster with the six simple machines.
Interactive Review Game: This game uses Google Slides so students can review concepts and check the answers.
This resource supports science concepts from these provinces and territories:
Saskatchewan: FM5.1 Analyze the effects of...mechanical forces... Grade 4
British Columbia and Yukon Territory: Simple Machines and their Forces Grade 5
Manitoba: Forces and Simple Machines Grade 5
any upper elementary or middle school science unit about simple machines
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Ninja Note:This file is a ZIP file. It contains all the PDF files that contain each unit. Buyers need to download the ZIP and extract the PDF files to a computer. To access the digital version, download the PDF and use the link in that file.
