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Science — Grade 7
Goal 6, Objective 6.05
Resources aligned to this objective
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- 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.
- Wheelin' fun
- In this lesson for grade seven, students participate in a car-racing lab, and make observations about how design affects speed. Students discuss how the lab applies to careers in motor sports.
- Format: (grade 7 Science)
- By Emma Couch.
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
- Inclined Plane
- In this multiple-day activity from Illuminations, students time balls rolling down inclines of varying lengths and heights. They then try to make inferences about the relationships among the variables involved. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science)
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Quake side effects
- In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear about some of the global changes caused by the tsunamis in 2004. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Science)
- Provider: American Association for the Advancement of Science
