Simple machines - Emma

tool with two levers attached together for cutting paper

• knife

• scissors

• slide

wheel and axle device that is turned when you open a door

• sail

• seesaw

• doorknob

fixed point on a lever that doesn't move

• fulcrum

• bar

• inclined plane

Pulleys are used to raise a flag up this tall object.

• screw

• flagpole

• wedge

type of simple machine made up of a bar that moves on a fixed point, or fulcrum

• lever

• wheel and axle

• pulley

number of different types of simple machines

type of simple machine that is made of a wheel with a rope or chain

• screw

• wedge

• pulley

lever that kids sit on; often found on a playground

• seesaw

• sail

• slide

a simple machine used to separate something; made up of two inclined planes back-to-back

• screw

• wedge

• pulley

wedge used for cutting food