Language Arts Activities:
1. Read
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
by Virginia Burton and identify the simple machines within the book.
2. Read
How Things Work
by David Macaulay to find out how simple machines work.
3. Write an acrostic poem for a simple machine or for the complex machine that is student designed.
4. Write a description of your simple machine and how it works.
5. Write a research paper about how simple machines influenced history and how they might influence the future.
6. Write an e-mail letter to a scientist or a peer to discuss simple machines.
7. Look up definitions of the simple machines either in an encyclopedia or on the internet.
To WORK IS SIMPLE WITH SIMPLE MACHINES
To WORK
IS SIMPLE WITH SIMPLE MACHINES