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Third-graders in Mrs. Strycker’s class at Triton Elementary School have been learning about simple machines and how they help us make work easier. Students created small machines out of paper, paper clips, straws, craft sticks, braids, rubber bands and note cards to help learn how to recognize and use a wedge, lever, inclined plane, pulley, screw and wheel and axle. They also watched examples in nature and real life with short video clips before creating a foldable book full of pictures and examples of each machine. Teams of students were able to create actual replicas of these simple machines with kits and test how each device could make work easier by pulling small weights on them. Students used what they learned to create a solution using simple machines to solve a real-world problem involving a wolf that needed captured. Pictured are Arianah Walters and Alli Barber.
