March 2026
Can You Trap a Leprechaun?
Extend the Lesson
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Reading Objective:
Students will identify four simple machines: the lever, the wheel and axle, the ramp, and the pulley. They will recognize how each device makes the leprechaun trap work and then design a trap of their own using a simple machine.
Next Generation Science Standards:
K-2 ETS1: Engineering Design
K-PS-2: The effect of pushes and pulls
Vocabulary:
lever, wheel and axle, ramp, pulley