Preschool simple machines

Need a creative way to demonstrate simple machines? These hands-on simple machine projects are perfect for your next lesson.

Easy and fun simple machine projects! Learn about six simple machines, and how they make work easier. Plus, everyday examples.

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Try this fun STEM activity where kids will design a pulley project at home. Fun way to learn about simple machines for kids!

This past weekend I got to help out with a Community Science Day at my son's co-op preschool. My favorite thing about the event was that all of the science activities were very simple and

Learn all six of the simple machines for kids with this easy, printable Simple Machines Matching Game for elementary age kids!

{For your convenience, this post may contain affiliate links} Before I had my boys I was a 4th/5th grade teacher and one of my favorite units to teach was Simple Machines. There were so many incredible hands-on learning opportunities with this unit that I just couldn’t fit it all in. One project I always…

As soon as I start preparing and planning for my simple machines unit, I know the year is coming to a close. Well… we have about two more months. Which sounds like a lifetime. Testing always sneaks up on us, but then there is three weeks of kids going crazy and antsy in the classroom! […]

Kids will have fun learning about wedges and screws with this fun,hands on Wedges & Screws Simple Machines Lesson. Perfect for elementary age kids.

This Archimedes’ screw is such a neat science lesson about simple machines! We use screws all the time to hold things together, but screws are also used to raise and lower things. In fact, a screw is actually an inclined plane (ramp) wrapped around a cylinder or a cone. Archimedes was a Greek philosopher who […]