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An interactive e-Book with core content, lesson plans, presentation slides, simulations, activities, student assignments and more.

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Product Summary

This interactive curriculum contains 11 lessons used to teach concepts associated with forces and simple machines. These lessons include:

Force and weight
Hooke’s law and the force from a spring
Friction
Force Equilibrium in two dimensions
Mechanical advantage and the lever
Torque
Ropes and pulleys
Work
Gears and ratios
The mechanical advantage of gears
Designing gear machines

Each lesson includes a teacher lesson plan, teacher presentation slide set, interactive simulations, student investigation, student assignment, teacher answer keys, and more.

All of the 11 lessons are designed to be delivered in conjunction with the Forces and Machines Engineering Kit (EP-3577) which supplies all of the equipment need to perform the hands-on activities therein.

Buying Guide

Required Accessories	P/N
1x Simple Machines Engineering Kit This kit includes all of the apparatus needed to perform the hands-on investigations in the Essential Physics Forces and Machines Teacher Resources.	EP-3577