Challenge: Compound Machines in the Fairy Garden
Challenge time in the Fairy Garden! Lily is busy with her wheelbarrow, garden scissors and bicycles, and every tool here is built from more than one simple machine.
Remember: A compound machine is two or more simple machines working together. Scissors are two levers with wedges for blades. A wheelbarrow is a lever with a wheel and axle, and its wheel is the fulcrum. A bicycle has wheels and axles, levers and screws.
Magic trick: Spot the simple machines inside, then count them.
Seek and Find
Look carefully at the picture of the Fairy Garden and find:
- 🌸 Find the wheelbarrow full of flowers. A lever and a wheel and axle working together.
- 🚲 Find the 2 bicycles. Wheels and axles, levers and screws, all in one machine.
- ✂️ Find the 3 pairs of garden scissors hanging on the shed. Two levers with wedge blades: a compound machine!
- 🐱 Millie and her kitten Biscuit are hiding in every picture. Can you spot them?