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Science — Grade 7
Goal 6, Objective 6.02
Resources aligned to this objective
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- Building a catapult
- In this lesson for grade seven, students review simple machines and explore how they're used in various careers. Students work in groups to design, construct, and test catapults.
- Format: (grade 7 Science)
- By Emma Couch.
- Studying simple machines with Rube Goldberg
- Using a copy of a Rube Goldberg cartoon, show how the famous cartoonist drew weird and wacky machines to complete a simple task. Students will develop their own Rube Goldberg-type cartoon, using five types of simple machines, to accomplish their selected feat.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science)
- By Cynthia Corley.
Lesson plans on the web
- The bicycle as a system
- This lesson gives students an opportunity to examine the nature of systems in the context of an object with which they are very familiar—the bicycle. Students will identify the properties of the various subsystems of a bicycle and examine how they relate to the whole. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 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
