Simple Machines Around the House: A Spotter's Guide

A printable guide for curious teens, adults and students in physics or shop class who want a home scavenger hunt and a clear way to do mechanical advantage maths. Inside: plain-English definitions, a card for each of the six simple machines, the three lever classes with a sorting activity, two worked examples with units, a blank calculation template, a room-by-room hunt sheet and a ramp-and-lever experiment with a data table. About 9 pages. It prints on A4 and US Letter. Every fact is sourced, and the sources are listed at the back.

Educational content. Facts checked 3 November 2026; every source is listed at the back.