Galva High School and Stark County High School

Integrated Science Curriculum

Year 3: Theme - Grand Designs

V. Simple and Complex Machines (Ch. 17)

A. Construction & construction materials

1. Minilab: "What is balance?" (SI, p. 513)

B. Contact forces

1. Minilab: "Do objects exert forces?" (SI, p. 519)

C. Work, energy, and power

1. Investigation: "Measuring work" (SI, p. 522)
2. Lab: "Your power" (MP, p. ?)

D. Simple machines, mechanical advantage, & efficiency

1. Activity 7-1: Using machines (MPS Lab, p. 55)
2. Activity 17-1: The inclined plane as a machine (MPS Lab, p. 101)
3. Investigation: "How can you make a building accessible?" (SI, p. 530)
4. Activity 7-2: Levers (MPS Lab, p. 57)
5. Lab 14: Balanced levers (MPS Lab, p. 53)
6. Activity 15: Pulleys (MPS Lab, p. 57)
7. Activity: Pulleys II (Handout)

E. Engines (electric, heat, combustion)

F. Performance assessment: "Rube Goldberg device" or "Junk Box Wars"