Credits and Educational Standards
Strand 4 Technology/Engineering
grades 3-5
Identify and explain the difference between simple and complex machines, e.g., hand can opener that includes multiple gears, wheel, wedge gear, and lever.
English and Language Arts
General standard 3
Students will make oral presentations that demonstrate consideration of audience, purpose and the information conveyed
Grades 3-4
3.5 make an informal presentation which have a recognizable organization.
General standard 4
Students will understand an acquire new vocabulary and use it correctly in reading and writing.
General Standard 24
Students will gather information from a variety of sources, analyze and evaluate the quality of the information they obtain, and use it to answer their own questions.
24.2 identify and apply steps in conducting and reporting research.
General Standard 27
Students will design and create coherent media productions
27.2 Create presentations using computer technologies.
Credits
http://sln.fi.edu/qa97/spotlight3/spotlight3.html
Simple machine page from which to get definitions.
Franklin Institute Inquiry Almanack
http://www.edheads.org/activities/simple-machines/
Edheads simple machines games. This site lists educational standards and has a post and pretest. Kids play in rooms to learn more about simple machines. Shows how tools we use every day are made up of simple machines.
http://www.edheads.org/activities/simple-machines/sm-glossary.htm#i
Glossary of simple machine terms.
http://www.beakman.com/lever/lever.html
This site is Beakman�s world. It tells about the three different types of levers. It is a Warner brother�s site. There is another page that comes up first which the children have to work around.
http://www.sirinet.net/~jgjohnso/simple.html
This site gives good definitions for simple machines including the definitions for work and force. The site was developed by Jerry Johnson a High School teacher from Oklahoma.
http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/science/sciber00/8th/machines/sciber/machines.htm
This site is useful for understanding the definitions of simple and compound machines.
http://www.atech.org/faculty/dunne/about/SM/
This site can be used for definitions and has animation.
http://www.smartown.com/sp2000/machines2000/main.htm
I used this site in the Scavenger Hunt and on the Web Detective page. It is a slide show put together by some middle school students, but it is quite well done.
http://www.professorbeaker.com/simple.html
a site developed for teachers of students age 5-9 in Ontario Canada. It has basic definitions and drawings.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/dirtrep/simple/invest.htm
This site is a Scholastic Magazine site. Dr. Dirtmeister is a geologist who is the director of a science museum in NY. This site is good for basic definitions.