This is a hands-on STEM project that encourages creativity, problem-solving, and critical thinking: Designing Simple Machines for Real-World Problem Solving. This project offers students the opportunity to become inventors as they tackle real-life problems and design their own simple machines to address them.

Throughout this project, students will engage in a step-by-step process that includes identifying a problem or inefficiency in their daily lives, conducting research, brainstorming ideas, designing blueprints, constructing their machines, and testing their functionality. By applying concepts of work and power, students will develop innovative solutions to improve efficiency and make tasks simpler.

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- Instructions

- Brainstorming Questions

- Grading Rubric