A school of fish

Here are a bunch of good links about gears  from when we learned about them earlier in our Simple Machines unit. A car gear shift doe...

At the end of this Simple Machines section of our Robotics Unit, we had a fun day learning about Rube Goldberg Machines and making our ow...

The children made collages using whatever they could find around the house to depict the six simple machines. I liked them. The above is ...

I guess I didn't take any pictures of our wheel and axle activities, but I'll include a few links. First of all, I thought it was ...

Pulleys are so fun! The concept of a block-and-tackle (multiple pulley configuration) was new to me, so I found it really interesting ...

Onto the second category of simple machines: levers! First, we just talked about levers themselves (wheels and pulleys had their own de...

There are lots of fun things to learn about screws! We tried screwing several types of screws (pointed tip, blunt tip; threads close toge...

I don't know if wedges really deserves its own blog post…but here it is anyway. We experimented with pushing different shapes through...

Studying Simple Machines is one of those things every child has to do at some point, so there are tons of books, tons of lesson plans, an...