Simple machines make work easier to do. But how? Join Joan at the Discovery Center of Idaho as she tries various experiments with simple machines. Science Trek is available to stream on pbs.org and ...

Find out how simple machines impact your daily life on this Science Trek: The Web Show. In this Science Trek: The Web Show, Host Joan Cartan-Hansen and her guest scientists John Gardner, Boise State ...

A simple machine is a mechanical device that changes the direction or magnitude of a force. In general, they can be defined as the simplest mechanisms that use mechanical advantage (also called ...

After learning about the lever, wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, wedge and screw, the students designed a future Hilltop playground, one that included examples of each simple machine studied.

Marble machines are the kind of useless mechanisms that everybody loves. Their sole purpose is to route marbles through different paths for your viewing pleasure. They can be extremely complicated ...

WAAAAAYYY back when I was in middle school physics they had some programs on our school computer that let you build simple machines. We basically built Rube Goldberg machines in the simulator to test ...

The majority of the 300 million tons of plastic produced every year isn’t recycled, and recycling that does happen typically happens at an industrial scale in factories using equipment that can cost ...