Kids use simple machines every day without realizing it. Teeth are wedges and so are knives, forks, and thumbtacks. Many toys such as slides, which are inclined planes, and seesaws, which are levers, are also simple machines. Two appealing kids and their comical cat introduce levers, wheels, pulleys, inclined planes, and more, and explain how they work. This lively introduction to physics will get kids excited about how simple machines simplify our...

From elevators to flagpoles, pulleys are at work all over in our world today. Learn all about them in five easy-to-read chapters. Vibrant, full-color photos, bolded glossary words, and a key stats section let readers zoom in even deeper. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Zoom is a division of ABDO.

"A chicken hops a ride to school to see what the humans do there all day and unlocks the superpowers of math and science, which she uses to save the coop"--

"From moving ramps to playground slides, inclined planes are at work all over in our world today. Learn all about them in five easy-to-read chapters. Vibrant, full-color photos, bolded glossary words, and a key stats section let readers zoom in even deeper." --Publisher's description.

Much like its older brother, Lego Mindstorms, Lego WeDo kits offer young engineers the chance to design and program creations all by themselves. WeDo kits take the fun and technology of Mindstorms kits and make it simpler for novice coders and builders. At the same time, using WeDo can be integrated into STEM instruction.

Provides tools and know-how to tackle all kinds of STEM projects: building a kaleidoscope, designing a fidget spinner, planting a rain forest, creating a musical instrument, and more. Organized by scientific principles, chapters include step-by-step activities and open-ended challenges. "This book is designed to inspire the next generation of engineers and supports all kinds of kid creators: those who prefer guided instruction, those who prefer to...

Sloth and Sengi are friends. they have grown up together in the zoo, and know every bit of their enclosure. And, frankly, they are a little bored with it. So they begin to plan an escape, with the help of some simple machines ... This book introduces such simple machines as levers, gears, planes, and pulleys.

A young Mammoth Islander observes some children playing on a see-saw and is inspired to try a simple machine called a lever to get her job done.

Dropping boulders off a tower makes gravel for the Mammoth Island roads, but lifting the boulders up to the top of the tower is difficult and dangerous. A young Mammoth Islander suggests that rolling boulders up a ramp would be easier than hauling them up a tower.

The Mammoth Islanders decide to use the concept of a wheel and axle to create a machine that will help them dry their mammoths.