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4) Shark attack
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Hot Wheels race cars attempt to escape from a shark attack.
5) Wheels
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Updated for 2020. Clear definitions supported by everyday examples and easy hands-on activities introduce young scientists to wheels.
6) Hot Wheels
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"Engaging images accompany information about Hot Wheels. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
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Describes experiments involving simple machines that follow the scientific method, and can be completed in an hour or less. Explore using levers to control motion and lift, and how the steepness of inclined planes affects the force needed to move something. Most experiments also include ideas for science fair projects.
11) Wheels & axles
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Introduces wheels and axles and explains how these simple machines work to make moving things easier.
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In this book, Richard W. Bulliet focuses on three major phases in the evolution of the wheel and their relationship to the needs and ambitions of human society. He begins in 4000 B. C. E. with the first wheels affixed to axles. He then follows with the innovation of wheels turning independently on their axles and concludes five thousand years later with the caster, a single rotating and pivoting wheel. Bulliet's most interesting finding is that a...
16) Wheels and axles
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Learn about how a wheel and axle works! Beginner readers and budding young scientists will love learning about using simple machines in everyday situations. Along the way, readers will be supported by expertly leveled text, a strong text-photo match and appropriate text load. Readers will be excited to dig in and learn all about simple machines and basic physics concepts.
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"Readers likely see and use the wheel and axle simple machine every day in the form of doorknobs and faucet handles. However, they may not know it! This book helps readers understand how the wheel and axle simple machine is all around them and helps build compound machines. Approachable text provides lasting knowledge about the forces that make these devices work. Bright full-color photographs including a picture gallery showing familiar objects that...
20) Wheels!
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Train wheels. Plane wheels. Gear wheels. Rear wheels. What if there were NO wheels? How would people go?
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