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K'NEX Education™ Introduction to Simple Machines Building Sets
Bring STEM concepts to life as your students build fully functioning replicas of real-world machines, one at a time.
Supplier: K'NEX Education™ EPD78610
Alert:
CHOKING HAZARD (1). Small parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
Description
- Each set includes instructions to build seven or more replicas of real-world machines, one model at a time
- Sets include K'NEX™ parts, building instructions, key facts and photos of actual machines
- Packs of four
- Grades 3 to 5
Key Concepts Include:
- Making Work Easier
- W=Fd (Work equals force times distance)
- Changing the Direction of Force
- Ideal Mechanical Advantage
- Actual Mechanical Advantage
- Wedge Screw
- Gear Ratios
- Mechanical Systems
- Gear Types
- Lever Classes
- Pulley Systems
Gears Set Includes:
- 198 K'NEX pieces per set
- Building instructions for seven replicas of real-world machines
- Demonstrates gear configurations, including spur and crown gears, mechanical advantage, gear ratios, how gears are used to change the amount of applied force to an object and more
- 178 K'NEX pieces per set
- Building instructions for eight replicas of real-world machines
- Demonstrates lever classes and pulley systems, showing how and why simple machines make work easier
- 221 K'NEX pieces per set
- Building instructions for seven replicas of real-world machines
- Explore examples of wheels and axles and identify the differences between an inclined plane, wedge and screw
Specifications
| Levers and Pulleys 8 Model Set | |
| 3 to 5 | |
| 178 K'NEX™ pieces per set, building instructions for eight replicas of real world machines, demonstrates lever classes and pulley systems, showing how and why simple machines make work easier |