Homework Assignments - Levers & Pulleys

My students are taking a long time completing Levers & Pulleys, partly because we're working on correcting bad work habits at this time of year, partly because the kit is new to me.  And I assign homework every night.  So I've had to create homework assignments for multiple days to sharpen particular skills and assess what they know.  Perhaps you are having the same experience?  Add your homework assignments below!

 

Decimals & Spring Scales 1.doc

Mostly to assess their skill at adding decimals, before we have to apply this skill during "Investigation 1."  The bottom half is three questions based on reading a spring scale accurately.  I ended up assigning the top half on one day, the bottom half on the second day.  At the moment, you have to hand-draw your own spring scale diagrams because I haven't figured out scanning. 

 

SeeSaw Homework.doc

Given after the third day of "Introduction to Levers."

 

simple machines concept map.doc

Concept map for the first Science Story, "Simple Machines." 

 

Graphing Practice.doc

A worksheet to help students practice their line graphing skills just before or just after they graph their levers data.  You will need to hand-draw some parts of the graphs until I scan the hand-out and revise this page.

 

What do graphs tell us.doc

 A worksheet to help students interpret the information found on line graphs.  Includes extrapolation and seeing relationships between variables.

 

class 1 levers.doc

A homework assignment to follow the Science Story, Class 1 Levers.  You might want to model what a "good answer" looks like when you give out this hand-out.  Future versions will include a model answer to help the kids.

 

Wheel & Axle.doc

An in-class assignment to accompany reading the Science Story, Wheel & Axle.  I think it's going to be pretty hard for the students - I will probably have them do it in pairs.

 

Class-One Levers Main Ideas.doc

(by Paul B.) Hand-out to accompany Class 1 Levers Science Story.  Asks students to record the main idea of each paragraph in their own words.

 

How Much Force Does It Take To Lift The Load.doc

(by Paul B.) Practice with spring scales.

 

Levers Hammer Question.doc

(by Paul B.) Asks students to compare the hammer when used as a class 3 lever to the hammer used as a class 1 lever. 

ms. frizzle's note: I LOVE this worksheet and am totally going to use it!  (The others look great, too, but this is my favorite). Thanks, Paul!

 

Pulleys Main Ideas.doc

(by Paul B.) Handout to accompany Pulleys Science Story.  Asks students to record the main idea of each paragraph in their own words.  Note that these Main Idea worksheets could be altered to work with any article.

 

class 2 levers.doc

A homework assignment to follow the Science Story, Class-2 Levers.  You might want to model what a "good answer" looks like when you give out this hand-out.

 

class 3 levers.doc

A homework assignment to follow the Science Story, Class-3 Levers.  You might want to model what a "good answer" looks like when you give out this hand-out. 

 

More Practice with Graphs.doc

I made this handout after giving I-Check 1 and discovering that my students need more practice reading and interpreting and creating graphs.  It goes well as homework after the first lesson in the More Leverage investigation, since you will have introduced class-2 and class-3 levers.  You have to draw in a graph in the first section.

 

lever diagram large.doc 

 A larger blank levers diagram for kids to fill out before sharing their lever with their classmates. 

 

Reviewing Lever Diagrams.doc

After I-Check 2, it became clear to me that the kids hadn't mastered drawing lever diagrams.  I gave this as homework when we were just starting the Pulleys Investigation, to review the skill.

 

Pulleys Graphic Organizer.doc

A graphic organizer (in the form of a table) to help students organize important ideas while reading the Science Story, "Pulleys."

 

 Pumpkin Pulley Puzzle.doc

A fall-themed homework assignment to follow the Science Stories "Pulleys" article.  You have to draw in the pulleys by hand at the moment. 

 

"Dear Boss" Comic Book Assignment

There is no hand-out for this one.  I will read the poem with the students, pausing frequently to review the action in the poem (not to mention the random Irish vernacular which I think is an odd choice given that the main character is portrayed as inept but I'm not going to rant about that here; let's just say you wouldn't get away with that if it were some other ethnic group).  I'll have the kids keep notes about the action of the poem.  Then I'll hand out 11 by 17 inch paper and have them fold it into 8 boxes.  The first box will be a title frame, and the other 7 frames will be for scenes from the story.  They will be graded on neatness, completeness, creativity, and how well their comic strip shows understanding of the story.  I anticipate this will take one class period plus two days of homework.  I was planning to make a hand-out of quotations from the poem for them to use to label their frames, but I'm a little concerned about copyright violation.  Note:  This worked really well.  The kids loved the assignment and many of their comic strips look awesome!  Great for a bulletin board...  Here's the Dear Boss rubric.doc I used.  It's not long on science content, but good for reinforcing literacy.

 

Lifting Weights.doc

A handout to reinforce the idea of supporting ropes.  It compares a single movable pulley to lifting a weight using two arms, while a single fixed pulley is like lifting the weight with one arm. 

 

The Work of Pulleys.doc

A handout to guide students as they read "The Work of Pulleys."  They will use their notes to finish it for homework.

 

The Screw.doc

A handout to guide the students as they read "The Screw."  They will use their notes to finish it for homework.

 

 

 

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