| Grade Level | System Requirement | Product Number |
|---|---|---|
| Grades 3-6 | Apple 128K | A333 |
| Anyone who thinks that delivering pizza is a simple job has never encountered the Pizza Pests! They’ll stop at nothing to steal a piping hot pizza! To make the delivery person’s job easier, kids use simple and compound machines — levers, pulleys, and gear wheels — to keep the pizza from the Pizza Pests’ greedy grasp. As kids become familiar with machines, they’ll learn how to adjust variables to make tasks easier. | ||
Introduction
The Pizza to Go™ discovery-learning game motivates students to learn about simple and compound machines. Students control the mechanical advantage on simple and compound machines in order to move obstacles (called Pizza Pests) out of the way of the pizza-delivery character.
Title: Pizza to Go
Subject: Physical science
Topic: Simple and compound machines
Grade Range: 3-6, junior high
Program Type: Educational game; discovery learning
Required Hardware: Apple II series computer with 128K and one disk drive; color monitor is recommended
Classroom Use: Individual student
Learning Objectives:
- to observe how simple and compound machines make work easier
- to observe that simple machines can be combined to make compound machines
- to control variables on simple machines (lever, pulley, and wheel and axle)
- to predict how controlling those variables will make work easier (mechanical advantage)
Manual
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