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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Escaping from a tall tower using one's hair is so fairy-tale old school. This STEM-smart Rapunzel uses the brain beneath her hair to educate her prince (and readers) on the ways the science of simple machines can save the day. A glossary and critical thinking questions reinforce the story's key physics concept"--
2) Pulleys
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A photographic introduction to pulleys for beginning readers, explaining what pulleys are and how they work, looking at different types of pulleys, and discussing pulleys and complex machines.
3) Levers
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Simple text, full color photographs, and illustrations introduce beginning readers to the basic principles of levers. Developed by literary experts for students in grades 2 through 5"--Provided by publisher.
4) Screws
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Simple text, full color photographs, and illustrations introduce beginning readers to the basic principles of screws. Developed by literary experts for students in grades 2 through 5"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
AV2 fiction readalong volume 45
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Provides a simple introduction to the use of levers, pulleys, and wheels to move heavy objects.
10) Simple machines
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Machines help make work easier, like when you need to lift something heavy or reach way up high. There are six simple machines: the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the ramp, the wedge, and the screw. Can you adjust a seesaw to lift an elephant? What happens when you combine two or more simple machines? Read and find out!"Amazon website.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Two enterprising mice, Ginger and Mac, are on a mission to bring home an especially aromatic vanilla cupcake with pink buttercream frosting. They have discovered that the amount of work you need to put into a job can almost always be decreased by using one of six simple machines: a lever, a wheel and axle, a pulley, an inclined plane, a wedge or a screw. Simple machines have only one or two parts that can usually be found around the house -- and...
13) Inclined planes
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Text and illustrations describe inclined planes, a simple machine.
14) Wheels and axles
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Text and illustrations describe the simple machines of wheels and axles.
15) Inclined planes
Author
Pub. Date
19--]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes many different kinds, uses, and benefits of inclined planes.
16) What are wedges?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Simple text and illustrations describe wedges and show how they make work easier.
17) Screws
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Looks at the function and everyday uses of screws