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Author/Host of Website KidsKnowIt Network
Type of Educational Content Website
Visit the website: Acceleration Interactive Movie
Free
Grade Level Middle and High (6-12)
KidsKnowIt Network's Acceleration Interactive Movie helps students understand what acceleration is and how it affects the velocity of objects.  Other concepts explained are constant velocity, constant acceleration, distance per second, and constant acceleration rate.
 
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Author/Host of Website Petri/Kloonigames, Ltd.
Type of Educational Content Software
Visit the website: Crayon Physics
Costs money
Grade Level All Ages (K-12)

From site:  Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle / sandbox game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics.

LearningReviews.com note:  This award-winning game can be used to help kids understand and build simple and compound machines and engage in creative problem solving.  You can download the demo version to experiment with it.  The cost for the full version is $19.95. 

 
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Author/Host of Website Edheads
Type of Educational Content Website
Visit the website: Edheads Simple Machines
Free
Grade Level Elementary (K-5)
See a lever, pulley, wedge, screw, wheel and inclined plane in action.  The EdHeads robot will escort you through various rooms in a house, garage and shed, as you identify simple and compound machines.  This site has won numerous awards. 
 
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Author/Host of Website Edheads
Type of Educational Content Website
Visit the website: Edheads: The Compound Machine
Free
Grade Level Elementary (K-5)
Students make predictions about machines and forces that take EdHead on a comical journey through a house's plumbing.  Great follow-on to this site's Simple Machines game. 
 
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Author/Host of Website Peter Stidwill/University of Cambridge
Type of Educational Content Website
Visit the website: Engineering Interact: Forces & Motion
Free
Grade Level Elementary and Middle (K-8)

From site:  Rival park owner, Bertie Block, is plotting to break one of ParkWorld's rides. Investigate the science of forces to save ParkWorld from ruin...

Teachers, you can access individual modules without the game environment: all about forces, gravity, stretching and compression, friction, magnetic forces, balanced and unbalanced forces.

 
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Author/Host of Website Rob Ives/Flying Pig, United Kingdom
Type of Educational Content Website
Visit the website: Mechanisms and Movement
Free
Grade Level Elementary and Middle (K-8)
From site:  Mechanisms are used to convert between one type of motion and another. Any machine can be looked on as a group of interconnected mechanisms which convert one type of motion to a variety of other motions.

These changes may be to convert rotary motion to straight line motion or to convert reciprocal (back and forth) motion to intermittent motion. They may also transform a fixed type of motion, for example by magnifying a linear motion or by slowing down a rotary motion.

LearningReviews note:  The six basic types of motions and mechanisms described and illustrated are linear, rotary, intermittent, reciprocating, oscillation and irregular motion.  For a fee, you can also purchase a downloadable version illustrating more complex mechanisms.

 
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Author/Host of Website Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago IL
Type of Educational Content Website
Visit the website: Simple Machines Game
Free
Grade Level Elementary (K-5)

From site: There are spare robot parts all over the Museum. It's the job of Twitch (up there, in red) to go and collect them. It won't be easy, and that's the problem: our adorable-but-lazy friend likes things easier. It's up to you and Twitch to use found objects to create simple machines, devices that will help him solve challenges with a minimum of force, collect the parts and stay out of trouble.

Create simple machines to trade distance for force in this challenge game!

 
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Author/Host of Website NeoK12
Type of Educational Content Video
Visit the website: Simple Machines Videos
Free
Grade Level All Ages (K-12)

NeoK12 offers a set of YouTube videos explaining and illustrating the different types of simple machines and how they work.  All videos and lessons on this site have been reviewed by K-12 teachers and are safe for kids.

 
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Author/Host of Website HA Games
Type of Educational Content Website
Visit the website: SlinkyBall
Free
Grade Level All Ages (K-12)

From site:  Do you know how simple machines behave? Solve all the puzzles PLUS create new ones for your friends.

Compete against your friends, rack up points, and win fabulous prizes! But you need to sign up first.

 
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Author/Host of Website Lemelson Center/Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Type of Educational Content Website
Visit the website: Tinker Ball
Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
Free
Grade Level Elementary and Middle (K-8)
From site:  Build a track for our ball by tinkering with everyday objects.  How many different ways can you help the ball reach its goal?  Explore our assortment of objects to create your own path, learning as you go.
 
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Author/Host of Website NeoK12
Type of Educational Content Video
Visit the website: Types of Forces Videos
Free
Grade Level All Ages (K-12)

NeoK12 offers a set of YouTube videos explaining and illustrating the types of forces, including normal force, friction, centrifigal force, centripetal force, gravity, magnetism, buoyancy, and nuclear.  All videos and lessons on this site have been reviewed by K-12 teachers and are safe for kids.

 
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Author/Host of Website NASA's Center for Distance Learning
Type of Educational Content Website
Visit the website: What are Potential and Kinetic Energy?
Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
Free
Grade Level Upper Elementary (3-5)
The lesson starts with a video using toy airplanes to illustration potential and kinetic energy.  It requires QuickTime to run.  There is an accompanying activity for measuring energy used and making predictions about potential and kinetic energy.
 
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Author/Host of Website NASA's Center for Distance Learning
Type of Educational Content Website
Visit the website: What is Force?
Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
Free
Grade Level Early Elementary (K-2)
There is a basic video describing force as a push or pull.  Video requires QuickTime to run.  The accompanying activities and experiments are targeted to early elementary education. 
 
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Author/Host of Website NASA's Center for Distance Learning
Type of Educational Content Website
Visit the website: What is Gravity?
Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
Free
Grade Level Early Elementary (K-2)
There is an elementary video explaining and illustrating gravity.  It requires QuickTime to run.  The accompanying activity will help students solidify their understanding of the concept. 
 
 
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