Description for Lifting HeavyThings

 

Lifting Heavy Things

Grade 4

lifting

  EDC Center for Science Education  

Narrative Summary:

As this module begins, students are asked to think about what it means to make work easier. They then try out experiences and challenges using levers, planes and pulleys, and explore the advantages and disadvantages of each.

At the end of the module, they are challenged to analyze a construction site that has no power and decide which simple machine is most appropriate for each task.

Other Lifting Heavy Things sites:

Hands-on Activities Science Program