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Science — Grade 5

Goal 4, Objective 4.07

Goal 4

The learner will conduct investigations and use appropriate technologies to build an understanding of forces and motion in technological designs.

Objective 4.07

Determine how people use simple machines to solve problems.

Resources aligned to this objective

Records 1–11 of 11 displayed.

Let's make it simple (pre-visit)
This lesson focuses on the student's ability to recognize objects in nature that could become tools to make work easier (simple machines). It is the first in a series of three lessons, the others being Lesson 2: Make it simple: Now find it (museum visit) and Lesson 3: Simple: Now compound (post-visit).
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science)
By Becky Robinson.
Simple: Now compound (post-visit)
This lesson focuses on the process of combining two or more simple machines to form a compound machine. It is the third in a sequence of lessons on machines. The others are Lesson 1: Let's make it simple (pre-visit) and Lesson 2: Make it simple: Now find it(museum visit).
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Science)
By Becky Robinson.
Solving problems using simple machines
This lesson uses the familiar story of the three pigs and the big bad wolf to explore how the wolf could have used simple machines to catch the three pigs. By reading, analyzing, and evaluating the wolf's use of simple machines in The 3 Pigs and the Scientific Wolf by Mary Fetzer, the students will design and justify their own machine to help the wolf catch those pigs!
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Science)
By Allison Buckner and Maria Tanner.

Lesson plans on the web

Break it down!
In this Science NetLinks lesson, students explore the everyday implications of system failure and are challenged to identify the causes. There are two prerequisite lessons for this lesson: Systems 1: Simple machines and Systems 2: Systems, Up, Up, and Away! (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science)
Provider: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Buoyant boats
The purpose of this Science NetLinks lesson is to design and construct a boat that takes into account factors such as buoyancy, the properties of materials, and design constraints. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science)
Provider: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Does soap float?
In this lesson, from Science NetLinks, students form hypotheses and carry out an investigation in order to answer a central question: Does soap float? They then demonstrate their understanding of the topic through oral or written reports. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Science)
Provider: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Images of science
The purpose of this Science NetLinks lesson is to understand the diversity of the scientific enterprise. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Science)
Provider: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Leonardo's machines
This lesson will highlight some of Leonardo da Vinci's futuristic inventions, introducing the elements of machines. Through the use of student interactives, this lesson provides an interesting context in which students can begin to develop their ideas about the uniqueness of humans in the natural world. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science)
Provider: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Move it! With simple machines
The purpose of this lesson is to know the six simple machines and to understand what they do and how they have changed the lives of humans. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science)
Provider: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Tools
The goal of this Science NetLinks lesson is to understand the impact tools (and machines) have on human society both historically and presently. The focus is on how tools make our lives easier. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K, 3, and 7 Science)
Provider: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Viking longhouse
In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear where early Viking explorers may have gone after their visit to America. (Learn more)
Format: activity (grade 5 Social Studies and Science)
Provider: American Association for the Advancement of Science