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Simple Machines and Complex Inventions
A 7th Grade Pathfinder

Machines are devices with which work is made easier and more effective. You may think of machines as being complex gadgets that have many parts and run on a type of fuel or electricity. However, a machine can be as simple as a shovel, chopsticks or even a pencil.

Your assignment is to research and make a brochure that provides information about the 6 basic kinds of simple machines. The inclined plane, the wedge, the screw, the lever, the wheel and axle and the pulley were thought to be among the first tools made and used by humans. As the human race became more advanced, these simple machines were put together and made into more and more complex compound machines. You will also include in your brochure a short biography about a famous inventor of one of these more complex machines.

Your research must include 3 sources - 1 print source and 2 websites!

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Books and Magazines

 
Industry and business    
   [ Book ] 338.0973 LEU    Leuzzi, Linda.  
        Published 1997  
 
Radio and television    
   [ Book ] 384.54 TEI    Teitelbaum, Michael.  
        Published 2005  
 
Discoveries that changed science    
   [ Book ] 500 MAR    Markham, Lois.  
        Published 1995  
 
Microscopes : bringing the unseen world into focus    
   [ Book ] 502 STE    Stewart, Gail, 1949-  
        Published 1992  
 
Popular science : science year by year : discoveries and inventions from the last century that shape our lives    
   [ Book ] 509.04 POP    [contributors, Mark Cook ... [et al.]].  
        Published 2001  
 
Sea clocks : the story of longitude    
   [ Book ] 526.62 BOR    Borden, Louise.  
        Published 2004  
 
Everyday things    
   [ Book ] 600 OXL    Oxlade, Chris.  
        Published 1994  
 
I is for idea : an inventions alphabet    
   [ Book ] 600 SCH    Schonberg, Marcia.  
        Published 2005  
 
Cool stuff and how it works    
   [ Book ] 600 WOO    written by Chris Woodford ... [et. al.].  
        Published 2005  
 
101 unuseless Japanese inventions : the art of Chindogu    
   [ Book ] 608 KAW    Kawakami, Kenji.  
        Published 1995  
 
Invention & discovery    
   [ Book ] 608 REI    Reid, Struan.  
        Published 1986  
 
Inventions : inventors & ingenious ideas    
   [ Book ] 608 TUR    Turvey, Peter.  
        Published 1994  
 
The real McCoy : the life of an African-American inventor    
   [ Book ] 608.72 MCC    Towle, Wendy, 1963-  
        Published 1993  
 
Popular patents : America's first inventions from the airplane to the zipper    
   [ Book ] 608.773 BRO    Brown, Travis, 1926-  
        Published 2000  
 
African American women scientists and inventors    
   [ Book ] 608.9 SUL    Sullivan, Otha Richard, 1941-  
        Published 2002  
 
Invention    
   [ Book ] 609 BEN    Bender, Lionel.  
        Published 1991  
 
The Inventor's Times : real-life stories of 30 amazing creations    
   [ Book ] 609 DRI    Driscoll, Dan, 1972-  
        Published 2002  
 
Mistakes that worked    
   [ Book ] 609 JON    Jones, Charlotte Foltz.  
        Published 1991  
 
Inventions that changed modern life    
   [ Book ] 609 MAR    Markham, Lois.  
        Published 1994  
 
53 1/2 things that changed the world and some that didn't    
   [ Book ] 609 PAR    Parker, Steve.  
        Published 1995  
 
Inventors    
   [ Book ] 609 SAN    Sandler, Martin W.  
        Published 1996  
 
100 inventions that shaped world history    
   [ Book ] 609 YEN    Yenne, Bill, 1949-  
        Published 1993  
 
Outward dreams : Black inventors and their inventions    
   [ Book ] 609.2 HAS    Haskins, James, 1941-  
        Published 1992  
 
9 African-American inventors    
   [ Book ] 609.2 HAY    Hayden, Robert C.  
        Published 1992  
 
American inventors of the 20th century    
   [ Book ] 609.2 JEF    Jeffrey, Laura S.  
        Published 1996  
 
Invention and technology    
   [ Book ] 609.2 LOM    Lomask, Milton.  
        Published 1991  
 
Inventors    
   [ Book ] 609.2 REI    Reid, Struan.  
        Published 1994  
 
The Usborne book of inventors    
   [ Book ] 609.2 REI    Reid, Struan.  
        Published 1994  
 
Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women    
   [ Book ] 609.2 THI    Thimmesh, Catherine.  
        Published 2000  
  Accelerated Reader® Level:  7.4 / 2.0 pts.
 
Brainstorms! : the stories of twenty American kid inventors    
   [ Book ] 609.2 TUC    Tucker, Tom, 1944-  
        Published 1995  
 
Women inventors and their discoveries    
   [ Book ] 609.2 VAR    Vare, Ethlie Ann.  
        Published 1993  
 
Eli Whitney : the cotton gin and American manufacturing    
   [ Book ] 609.2 WHI    Huff, Regan A.  
        Published 2004  
  Accelerated Reader® Level:  9.1 / 3.0 pts.
 
Buckminster Fuller    
   [ Book ] 620 FUL    Potter, Robert R.  
        Published 1990  
 
The steam engine    
   [ Book ] 621.1 COL    Collier, James Lincoln.  
        Published 2006  
 
The steam engine    
   [ Book ] 621.1 DEF    DeFord, Deborah H.  
        Published 2005  
 
The story of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor : the wizard of Menlo Park    
   [ Book ] 621.3 EDI    Davidson, Margaret, 1936-  
        Published 1990  
 
Thomas Alva Edison : inventing the electric age    
   [ Book ] 621.3 EDI    Adair, Gene.  
        Published 1996  
 
Thomas Edison    
   [ Book ] 621.3 EDI    Hantula, Richard.  
        Published 2005  
 
Thomas Edison and electricity    
   [ Book ] 621.3 EDI    Parker, Steve.  
        Published 1995  
 
Thomas Edison : great inventor    
   [ Book ] 621.3092 EDI    Murcia, Rebecca Thatcher.  
        Published 2005  
 
Electricity and the lightbulb    
   [ Book ] 621.32 COL    Collier, James Lincoln.  
        Published 2006  
 
Samuel Morse and the story of the telegraph    
   [ Book ] 621.383 MOR    Zannos, Susan.  
        Published 2005  
 
Guglielmo Marconi and radio    
   [ Book ] 621.384 MAR    Parker, Steve.  
        Published 1995  
 
Guglielmo Marconi and the story of radio waves    
   [ Book ] 621.384 MAR    Zannos, Susan.  
        Published 2005  
 
Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone    
   [ Book ] 621.385 BEL    Parker, Steve.  
        Published 1995  
 
Alexander Graham Bell : making connections    
   [ Book ] 621.385 BEL    Pasachoff, Naomi E.  
        Published 1996  
 
The telephone    
   [ Book ] 621.385 STE    Stefoff, Rebecca.  
        Published 2006  
 
Telephones : words over wires    
   [ Book ] 621.385 WEB    Webb, Marcus, 1957-  
        Published 1992  
 
The telegraph and telephone    
   [ Book ] 621.385 WOR    Worth, Richard.  
        Published 2006  
 
The phonograph    
   [ Book ] 621.389 DOA    Doak, Robin S. (Robin Santos)  
        Published 2006  
 
Phonograph : sound on disk    
   [ Book ] 621.389 STE    Steffens, Bradley, 1956-  
        Published 1992  
 
Machines & inventions.    
   [ Book ] 621.8 MAC     
        Published 1993  
 
Gunpowder and weaponry    
   [ Book ] 623.4 COL    Collier, James Lincoln.  
        Published 2004  
 
The Wright brothers    
   [ Book ] 629.13 WRI    Martin, Michael J.  
        Published 2003  
 
The Wright brothers and aviation    
   [ Book ] 629.13 WRI    Parker, Steve.  
        Published 1995  
 
The airplane    
   [ Book ] 629.133 FAB    Faber, Harold.  
        Published 2006  
 
Karl Benz and the single cylinder engine    
   [ Book ] 629.222 BEN    Bankston, John.  
        Published 2005  
 
The automobile    
   [ Book ] 629.222 BUR    Burgan, Michael.  
        Published 2005  
 
The automobile    
   [ Book ] 629.222 COL    Collier, James Lincoln.  
        Published 2006  
 
Automobiles : connecting people and places    
   [ Book ] 629.222 IMM    Immell, Myra.  
        Published 1994  
 
The cotton gin    
   [ Book ] 633.5 MEL    Meltzer, Milton.  
        Published 2004  
 
The telescope and microscope    
   [ Book ] 681 DOA    Doak, Robin S. (Robin Santos)  
        Published 2006  
 
Clocks    
   [ Book ] 681.1 COL    Collier, James Lincoln.  
        Published 2004  
 
Toilets, toasters, & telephones    
   [ Book ] 683 RUB    Rubin, Susan Goldman.  
        Published 1998  
 
Guns : tools of destructive force    
   [ Book ] 683.4 HIT    Hitzeroth, Deborah, 1961-  
        Published 1994  
 
The printing press    
   [ Book ] 686.2 MEL    Meltzer, Milton.  
        Published 2004  
 
Toys! : amazing stories behind some great inventions    
   [ Book ] 688.7 WUL    Wulffson, Don L.  
        Published 2000  
  Accelerated Reader® Level:  6.8 / 3.0 pts.
 
Louis Daguerre and the story of the daguerreotype    
   [ Book ] 770 DAG    Bankston, John.  
        Published 2005  
 
The camera    
   [ Book ] 770 POB    Pobst, Sandy.  
        Published 2005  
 
Outward dreams : Black inventors and their inventions.    
   [ Book ] 920 OUT    Haskins, Jim.  
   
 
The technology of World War II    
   [ Book ] 940.54 SHE    Sheehan, Sean, 1951-  
        Published 2003  
 
The amazing life of Benjamin Franklin    
   [ Book ] 973.3 FRA    Giblin, James.  
        Published 2000  
 
Benjamin Franklin    
   [ Book ] 973.3 FRA    Roop, Peter.  
        Published 2001  
 
Exploring technology    
   [ Book ] R 603 EXP V.1    [writers, John Bassett and others].  
        Published 2004  
 
Encyclopedia of ideas that changed the world : the greatest discoveries and inventions of human history    
   [ Book ] R 608.7 ING    Ingpen, Robert R.  
        Published 1993  
 
Inventions & inventors.    
   [ Book ] R 609 INV     
        Published 2000  
 
World of invention    
   [ Book ] R 609 WOR    Kimberley A. McGrath, editor.  
        Published 1999  
 
Yearbooks in science.    
   [ Book ] R 609 YEA     
        Published 1995  
 
Yearbooks in science : 1920-1929    
   [ Book ] R 609 YEA    Newton, David E.  
        Published 1995  
 
Yearbooks in science : 1930-1939    
   [ Book ] R 609 YEA    Aaseng, Nathan.  
        Published 1995  
 
Yearbooks in science : 1940-1949    
   [ Book ] R 609 YEA    Aaseng, Nathan.  
        Published 1995  
 
Yearbooks in science : 1950-1959    
   [ Book ] R 609 YEA    Kerby, Mona.  
        Published 1995  
 
Yearbooks in science : 1960-1969    
   [ Book ] R 609 YEA    McGowen, Tom.  
        Published 1995  
 
Yearbooks in science : 1970-1979    
   [ Book ] R 609 YEA    Gutfreund, Geraldine Marshall.  
        Published 1995  
 
Yearbooks in science : 1980-1989    
   [ Book ] R 609 YEA    Dunbar, Robert E.  
        Published 1995  
 
Yearbooks in science : 1990 and beyond    
   [ Book ] R 609 YEA    Silverstein, Herma.  
        Published 1995  

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Videos and DVDs

Friction/Simple machines    
   [ Video ] AV 530 FRI    produced by Disney educational productions.   
        Published 1996
 
Communications & transportation inventions that changed our lives    
   [ Video ] AV 609 COM    BBC Worldwide Entertainment.  
        Published 1998  
Work, energy and the simple machine  
   [ Video ] AV 621.8 WOR    United Learning ; producer, John Colgren.
        Published 1991

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Internet Resources

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Websites

Simple machines

http://www.edheads.org/activities/simple-machines/

http://sln.fi.edu/qa97/spotlight3/spotlight3.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002079F/sub3.htm

http://www.mikids.com/Smachines.htm

http://home.earthlink.net/~kandyhig/sm/toolbox.htm

http://www.coe.uh.edu/archive/science/science_lessons/scienceles1/finalhome.htm

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Keywords

  • Inclined plane
  • Wheel
  • Lever
  • Pulley
  • Wedge
  • Screw
  • Axle
  • Simple machines
  • Inventor
  • Invention
  • Names of inventors
  • Names of inventions

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Dewey Numbers

608 Inventions
621.8  Machine engineering
 

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