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Choose a tool or a device you can investigate. It must not have any source of power other than the person using it. It must use one or more of the six simple machines. Explain how the tool or device is used. What work does a person do while using it? What kind of motion do we see when it’s used?

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Wheelbarrows- This tool/device is used for a variety of things, such as moving rock, mulch or compost to the garden, moving trees or large shrubs from one spot to another, hauling bricks, disposing of garden debris, for mixing concrete or fertilizers, and even used on farms for mucking horse stalls. The work you do is pushing it whcih also goes along with the montion you will see, forward motion.

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Wheelbarrows, fishing rods, shovels, brooms, arms, legs, boat oars, crow bars, and bottle openers are all examples of levers. Levers may be one of the most used simple machine. As with all simple machines like the lever, they are designed to help make work easier to do.

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