Students read about simple-machines and conduct experiments, but more independently. Students read closely BEFORE doing the experiment. This helps see how they develop as readers.
The structure of this lesson is similar to Lessons 3 and 5. Students learn about pulleys, focusing on how the pulley is similar to and different from other simple machines.
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These resources, developed by the New York State Education Department, provide standard-level scaffolding suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs) to help them meet grade-level demands. Each resource contains scaffolds at multiple levels of language acquisition and describes the linguistic demands of the standards to help ELA teachers as well as ESL/bilingual teachers scaffold content for their English learning students.