Simple machines
- What
- Museum Staff-led
- When
- Terms 3 to 4, Monday–Friday
- Year level
- Years 3 to 6
- Minmum student numbers
- Minimum 15 students
- Maximum student numbers
- Maximum 100 students
- Cost
- $9 per student + education service fee
- Booking information
- Bookings 13 11 02
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In this 30-minute show students will discover how simple machines such as inclined planes, wheel and axle machines, wedges, screws, levers and pulleys make it easier to do work.
Find out how everyday examples of simple machines are used to transfer forces, change the size and direction of forces, transform energy and change speeds.
Victorian Curriculum links
- Levels 3–6 Physical Sciences
- Levels 3–6 Critical and Creative Thinking
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