Simple Machines Supply List
Gears (Gear Stages)
- Gear factory stages
- Mulitplier stages
Inclined Plane
- 3 boards (12, 24, and 36 inches long)
- Pile of books or support for the boards
- 200 gram weight
- Spring scale or clamp pulley
- Paper or plastic cup
- Gram weights
Levers
- 1 yardstick, cut in half
1 pencil
- 3/8" galvanized washers
- Double-sided tape
More Levers!
- 1 ruler
- 1 pencil
- 1 heavy book
Pull Toy
- 2 7/8" diameter dowel rods
- 20' of rope or more
Pulleys
- 1 7/8" diameter dowel rod
- 3 pulleys
- 1 500 gram weight
- 1 spring balance or a pail or cup with gram weights
- Rope
Simple Pulleys
- Broom handle or thick dowel rod
- Rope
Milk bottle or detergent bottle with handle, filled with water or sand
Skateboards: Simple Machines
- Skateboard
- Group of at least 3 students
- Flat and smooth floor surface
What Do Wedges Do?
- Large box full of uncooked rice
- Rectangular block
- Triangular block
- Pictures of examples of wedges (Bow of a boat, ax splitting wood, knife cutting through cheese or butter, etc.)
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