Grade 5 · Science · Lesson 16
Simple Machines
What this lesson teaches
- 1Identify the six simple machines and how each one works
- 2Match each simple machine to an everyday example
- 3Explain how simple machines make work easier by trading effort for distance
- 4Sort tools and objects into the simple machine they belong to
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