Simple Machines: Pulley Notebooking Pages for Grades 2 to 8
These free Pulley Notebooking printables will help your elementary and middle school students show what they’ve learned about the different types of pulleys and pulley systems and provide examples of each type.

These Simple Machines: Pulley notebooking pages can be used for any science or physics lessons about the earliest machines used by humankind. Online resources, videos, and book recommendations are below to help you and your students with the study of Pulleys.
With these Simple Machines: Pulley notebooking pages, your kids can write about the ways pulleys and pulley systems are used. Or they can write facts they learned about the use of such simple machines in history. There are even places to draw examples of different types of pulleys.
These free Pulley notebooking printables would even work for copying poems or quotes about pulleys, such as this one:
Violet had a real knack for inventing and building strange devices, so her brain was often filled with images of pulleys, levers, and gears, and she never wanted to be distracted by something as trivial as her hair.
Lemony Snicket
The Simple Machines: Pulleys notebooking pages come in 3 differentiated levels to fit all of your students’ needs.
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Resources for Researching Simple Machines: Pulleys
Books
Choose One of the Following:
Pull, Lift, and Lower: A Book About Pulleys by Michael Dahl
The Way Things Work Now by David Macauley
Simple Machines: Wheels, Levers, and Pulleys by David E. Adler
Pulleys (Early Bird Physics Books) by Sally M. Walker
Online Resources
How do pulleys work? at Astro Camp
Pulleys with SciShowKids (for younger kids)
How Levers, Pulleys, and Gears Work from The Efficient Engineer (for older kids)
Simple Machines: Pulleys Notebooking and Journaling Printables
These notebooking pages come in 3 levels to fit all of your students’ needs. There’s a large elementary-lined one, a smaller elementary-lined one, and a regular-lined one. There are 13 pages in total.
Each level of the simple machines printables also comes in a photo, a color graphic, and a printer ink friendly black/white.




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