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K'NEX Education: Exploring Machines

Grades: 5-8 | Number: 78600 | Price: $138.00

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Fully Comprehensive simple machines set for middle school. Contains 1432 pieces and color-coded building instructions to build 30 different models. Build 4 of each/any model type simultaneously. Models demonstrate: 1st, 2nd and 3rd class levers; fixed, movable, compound and block and tackle pulley systems; wheels and axles with the force applied to both the wheel and the axle; inclined planes, screws and wedges; spur, crown, sprocket, rack and pinion, transmission and differential gear systems. A 70 page teacher’s guide is included in the set; 14 student inquiry lesson plans and worksheets, plus teacher answer sheets.

Teacher's Guide Included!

	Levers, pulleys, inclined planes, wedge, screw, wheel and axel
	Gears
	Energy Transfer
	W=Fd (computation of work input and work output)
	Effort and Resistance Forces
	Classes of levers
	Computing Mechanical Advantage (Ideal and experimental)
	Technological Design Process
	Experimental Design
	Motion and Forces
	Science and Technology in Society
	Systems

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