Here is a tri-faceted resource that has a slide show, a quiz, and a vocabulary list that you can use to teach simple machines. Six machines are introduced: wheels and axles, planes, levers, pulleys, wedges, and screws. Slides contain photos of people using the simple machines in a variety of interesting situations. Explanations are printed beneath each slide.

Concepts

wheels, axles, fulcrum, levers, pulleys, simple machines

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Additional Tags

simple machine, fulcrum, pulley, lever, wheel and axle, science

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Pros

• Hip instrumental music and moving slides draw interest to the quality photographs 
• Option to turn music off or print out the slides as a handout
• An interactive quiz and vocabulary definitions are available on the website

Cons

• A very minor problem to note: axle is misspelled on the main page introduction