Simple Machines Task Cards | Name the Simple Machine | Paper and Digital

Practice identifying simple machines such as levers, pulleys, inclined planes, screws, wedges, wheels, and axles. These task cards can be used as a game, assessment, review, or introduction to a simple machines unit and come in a variety of formats.

This resource is included in our Grade 4 Alberta Science Bundle.

This resource is part of our Simple Machines Bundle.

This versatile resource includes:

• 24 different simple machines questions in three formats
• instructions to use these cards as paper task cards in colour or ink-saving printer versions.
• instructions to use these cards with Google Slides.
• instructions to use these cards in a premade self-grading Google Forms assessment version.
• cards that will work for the classroom or for distance learning.
• blank cards so you can make up questions to add to your set or have students make cards of their own, but they are not editable digitally.
• student recording pages in two different formats.
• answer key.

This resource aligns with:

• the Alberta Program of Studies Grade 4 Science (Wheels and Levers and Building Devices That Move)

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
• Northwest Territories: Pulleys and Gears Grade 4
• Manitoba: Forces and Simple Machines Grade 5
• any upper elementary or middle school science unit about simple machines

Ninja Note: To access the digital version, download the PDF and use the link in that file.

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