1. Bell Work: 3/1/11
Finish the 2-square vocabulary with your group. Take no longer than FIVE minutes!
Machine
Simple machines
Work
Force
Work input/Work output
Lever
Complete the three scenarios that are on the instruction sheet in your bucket.
Pulley
Wheel & axle
Inclined plane
Wedge
Screws
Compound machine

2. Machine YOURS: textbook:
A machine is a device that makes work easier by changing the size or direction of a force.
Examples: wheelchair, scissors, chopsticks

3. Simple Machines YOURS: textbook:
A machine or simple device without moving parts.
Examples: lever, pulley, wheel & axle, inclined plane, wedge, screw

4. Work
YOURS:
textbook:
Work is the transfer of energy to an object by using a force that causes the object to move in the direction of the force.
Work is done on an object if two things happen: 1) the object moves as a force is applied, 2) the direction of the object’s motion is the same as the direction of the force.
Examples: pushing a ball up a hill

5. Work or Not Work? or OR
YES NO
YES NO

6. Force YOURS: textbook:
A push or a pull exerted on an object in order to change the motion of the object; force has size and direction.
Examples: people, bulldozer, static electricity

7. Work Input/Work Output
YOURS:
textbook:
Work input is the work done on the machine.
Work output is the work done by the machine.
Examples: opening a paint can

8. Lever YOURS: textbook:
A lever is a simple machine that has a bar that pivots at a fixed point, called a fulcrum.
Examples: first-class lever (see saw), second-class lever (wheelbarrow or soda bottle opener), third-class lever (lifting weights or hammering a nail)

9. Three Classes of Levers
First-Class Lever
Second-Class Lever
Third-Class Lever
Elementary School
Middle School
High School

10. Pulley YOURS: textbook:
A simple machine that has a grooved wheel that holds a rope or a cable.
Examples: fixed, moveable, block and tackle

11. Movable pulleys do increase force, but they also increase the distance over which the input force must be exerted.
A fixed pulley and a movable pulley are used together; the mechanical advantage of a block and tackle depends on the number of rope segments.
The pulley changes the direction of the force. Elevators make use of fixed pulleys.

12. Wheel & Axle YOURS: textbook:
A simple machine consisting of two circular objects of different sizes.
Examples: car’s wheel & axle, faucet

13. Inclined Plane YOURS: textbook:
A simple machine that is a straight, slanted surface; a ramp.
Examples: ramp or slide

14. Wedge YOURS: textbook:
A simple machine that is made up of two inclined planes and that moves; often used for cutting.
Examples: knife, axe, door stop

15. Screw YOURS: textbook:
A simple machine that consists of an inclined plane wrapped around a cylinder.
Examples: screw, light bulb

16. Compound Machine YOURS: textbook:
A machine made up of more than one simple machine.
Examples: manual can opener

17. Mechanical Advantage YOURS: textbook:
A machine’s mechanical advantage is the number of times the machine multiplies force; how much easier it is to do the work using that specific machine.
Examples:
It is 10 times easier to use a ramp to move a heavy object.

18. SCENARIOS

19. Take Five…
Take five minutes with your group to make a list of machines (simple or compound) that help make your life or work easier around the house, at school, or anywhere.

20. Edheads
Fill out the chart as we go through the Simple Machines activity on the Edheads website.