Lesson 1 of 30 · Simple Machines
Lesson⭐ 30 XP🛠️ Engineer ShopPush and Pull!
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Simple Machines.
🎯 Your mission
Learn the rule. Then catch nature using it.
⚡ The twist
The first design always fails. That's the point.
Mind = Blown
🚀 The Saturn V rocket burned 20 tons of fuel per second at liftoff.
Make a hypothesis first
Guess: what's the weakest part of this build?
What You'll Learn
A push moves things away from you. A pull brings things closer. Can you push a toy car across the table?
Key Words
Tap a word to see its definition.
Steps
Say the vocabulary words out loud. Can you repeat them?
Push a toy car gently, then push it hard. Which push made it go farther?
Did anything change? Point to what is different.
Point to the things you used in the activity.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3What happens if you push harder?
Where you see this in real life
Every bridge, building, and gadget you've ever used started with this.
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life this week.
Find something that's broken at home and try to figure out *why* it broke.
For the dinner table
“What's something around the house you'd redesign — and how?”
Next Smart Experiment
We'll pick an experiment that matches exactly how you're thinking right now.
Share this experiment
Send it to a parent who's looking for a 10-minute kitchen science win.
Ready?
Push and Pull!
Learn the rule. Then catch nature using it.
Full screen — no distractions
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