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Exploring Machines

Grades: 5-8 | Number: 78600 | Price: $129.00

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Fully Comprehensive simple machines set for middle school. Contains 1432 pieces and color-coded building instructions to build 30 different models. Build 4 of each/any model type simultaneously. Models demonstrate: 1st, 2nd and 3rd class levers; fixed, movable, compound and block and tackle pulley systems; wheels and axles with the force applied to both the wheel and the axle; inclined planes, screws and wedges; spur, crown, sprocket, rack and pinion, transmission and differential gear systems. A 70 page teacher’s guide is included in the set; 14 student inquiry lesson plans and worksheets, plus teacher answer sheets.

Teacher's Guide Included!

NATIONAL SCIENCE EDUCATION CONTENT STANDARDS (NSES)
Science as Inquiry - Content Standard A: As a result of activities in grades 5-8, all students should develop: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry. Understandings about scientific inquiry.
INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (ITEA)
Standards for Technological Literacy: The role of troubleshooting, research and development, invention and innovation, and experimentation in problem solving. Content Standard 10 - In order to be able to comprehend other problem solving approaches, students in grades 6-8 should learn that: Invention is the process of turning ideas and imagination into devices and systems.

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