Name the Simple Machine Task Cards | 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 machine unit and come in different formats.

This resource is part of our Simple Machines Unit.

This versatile resource includes:

• everyday objects with levers, pulleys, inclined planes, screws, wedges, wheels and axles. Students will identify the simple machine.
• 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 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: To access the digital version, download the PDF and use the link in that file.

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