Simple Machines: Inclined Plane and Wedge
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Simple Machines: Inclined Plane and Wedge
Click on the first word on the left-hand side of the screen Warehouse. Put your cursor at the left-hand side of the screen, look for the arrow pointing toward the left. Click once. Then click on the key on the right-hand side of the screen. Click on the words Inclined Planes printed in red. Click on the movie camera.
Draw the picture of the inclined plane on the screen. The picture with the man pushing the rock up the slope). Label the picture with the words: inclined plane, effort, load, and vertical distance.
Inclined Plane
Click on Wedge at the top right side of the screen. Read the paragraph and fill in blanks below:
The wedge acts as a ______inclined plane. The cutting edge of an axe is
______. The lumberjack can ______logs that cannot be broken by hand.
P. Elliott: Teacher-Librarian Ferndale Woods E.S. Barrie, Ontario Click on the RED ARROW pointing down to see the motion of The Wedge. Click on the word CHOP in red, then draw the picture of the log after the axe moves.
Wedge Wedge
An example of a wedge is an ______.
Click on Related machines in the lower right corner and list 3 machines that use Levers. 1.
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3.
Click on one of the machines and read about it.
P. Elliott: Teacher-Librarian Ferndale Woods E.S. Barrie, Ontario