Galva High School and Stark County High School
Integrated Science Curriculum
Year 3: Theme - Grand DesignsV. Simple and Complex Machines (Ch. 17)
A. Construction & construction materials
B. Contact forces
- Minilab: "What is balance?" (SI, p. 513)
C. Work, energy, and power
- Minilab: "Do objects exert forces?" (SI, p. 519)
D. Simple machines, mechanical advantage, & efficiency
- Investigation: "Measuring work" (SI, p. 522)
- Lab: "Your power" (MP, p. ?)
E. Engines (electric, heat, combustion)
- Activity 7-1: Using machines (MPS Lab, p. 55)
- Activity 17-1: The inclined plane as a machine (MPS Lab, p. 101)
- Investigation: "How can you make a building accessible?" (SI, p. 530)
- Activity 7-2: Levers (MPS Lab, p. 57)
- Lab 14: Balanced levers (MPS Lab, p. 53)
- Activity 15: Pulleys (MPS Lab, p. 57)
- Activity: Pulleys II (Handout)
F. Performance assessment: "Rube Goldberg device" or "Junk Box Wars"