March 2026

Can You Trap a Leprechaun?

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STEM Activity
Design a Trap That Uses a Simple Machine

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Academic Standards

Reading Objective:

Students will identify four simple machines (lever, wheel and axle, ramp, and pulley) and recognize their function in a trap.

 

Reading Level:

Lexile : 410L; GRL: L

Next Generation Science Standards:

K-2 ETS1: Engineering Design

 

Vocabulary:

simple machines, lever, wheel and axle, ramp, pulley

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