Simple Machines

June 5, 2013
Cloverbud 4H campers built with gears and pulleys and levers and wheels and axles.














Gears that mesh can drive one another.


Gears can be used to drive a drill at right angles.

Teeter totter is a lever.

Push and the car goes.

A winch uses gears at right angles.

Low car      high car


This truck can go around in a figure 8.

Gears at right angles.

Puppet uses levers and pulleys.

Merry go round has gears that mesh.






Pulleys can be used to make slow or fast motion.
LEGO Links of Linda Hamilton
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