Lesson 25 of 30 · Simple Machines

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Wind Turns the Windmill

🧪Lab Brief #25

Simple Machines.

🎯 Your mission

Learn the rule. Then catch nature using it.

⚡ The twist

The first design always fails. That's the point.

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Mind = Blown

🚀 The Saturn V rocket burned 20 tons of fuel per second at liftoff.

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Make a hypothesis first

Guess: what's the weakest part of this build?

What You'll Learn

A windmill turns when the wind pushes its blades. Wind is a force!

Key Words

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Steps

Step 1 — Read

Say the vocabulary words out loud. Can you repeat them?

Step 2 — Do

Push a toy car gently, then push it hard. Which push made it go farther?

Step 3 — Observe

Use your eyes, ears, and hands to explore. What do you notice?

Step 4 — Record

Color a picture to show what happened.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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Can wind push a kite?

How sure are you going to be?😐 maybe

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Where you see this in real life

Every bridge, building, and gadget you've ever used started with this.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Find something that's broken at home and try to figure out *why* it broke.

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For the dinner table

“What's something around the house you'd redesign — and how?”

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