This document defines and provides examples of six simple machines: the lever, pulley, wheel and axle, inclined plane, screw, and wedge. Each machine allows a smaller force to move a larger load using mechanical advantage. For example, a lever changes the amount of force needed to lift an object using a fulcrum, while an inclined plane makes it easier to move an object up or down a slope rather than lifting it straight up.

2. Something that makes work
easier to do

3. Example: It's easier to lift & carry
a rock with a wheelbarrow that to
carry it with your hands

4. - They are machines with few or no
moving parts

5. - It is a straight bar that moves on a fixed
point "Fulcrum”
Examples:
Seesaw
(1) Lever
Load
Fulcrum

6. Load
Fulcrum
-Pressing down on a lever, lifts up the load.
-Levers change how much force you need to move something.

7. (2) Pulley
- It is a kind of lever that uses a wheel & a
rope to lift an object
Examples:
When you pull down one end of the rope, the
other end rises up
Wheel
Rope

8. (3) Wheel & Axle
- It is a kind of lever that uses a wheel that
moves around an axle.
Examples:
A Ferris wheel
Wheel
Axle

9. A Door knob
A Wheel barrow

10. A shopping cart
A Mouse wheel

11. It is a simple machine with flat & inclined
surface which reduce the force needed to
move an object.
Example:
A Ramp
- It is easier to slide a heavy box on an inclined
Plane than to lift it up.
(4) Inclined plane

12. - It is an inclined plane wrapped onto a spiral.
- "A screw changes a turning force into a
downward force“ as we turn the screw,
it moves down.
Example:
{It is easier to turn a screw than to pound a nail}
(5) A screw

13. An Auger is a giant screw

14.  It is a simple machine that splits objects
apart.
"A Wedge changes a downwards force into
sideways force"
Examples:
The Head of an Ax The Knife
(6) A Wedge