My Simple Machine Wheel The Wheel and Axle

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My Simple Machine
Wheel The Wheel and Axle

• By Zoë Samuels
• October 2009 axle

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Simple Machines

• Simple machines are tools with some moving parts
  or none at all.
• Simple machines make life easier.
• These are the different types of Simple Machines
  Wheel Axle, Screw, Pulley, Inclined Plane,
  Wedge and Lever.

Sources http//www.edheads.org/activities/simple-
machines/glossary.htm,
http//www.beaconlearningcenter.com
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Wheel and Axle

• There are two parts of this simple machine, the
  wheel and the center post called the axle.
• A wheel axle moves or turns the object. This is
  the function.

Sources http//www.edheads.org/activities/simple-
machines/glossary.htm,
http//www.beaconlearningcenter.com
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