Genre Comprehension Skill Text Features Science Content

Nonfiction Put Things in Order • Call Outs Technology

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Scott Foresman Science 1.12

ISBN 0-328-13767-7

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 Vocabulary What did you learn?
inclined plane
1. What do machines help
lever
farmers do?
pulley
screw
2. What are some tools you can
simple machine
find in a kitchen?
technology by Lily Samuels
wedge
3. Technology
wheel and axle
has changed over time. Write to
name some of the machines and
tools we use that people did not
have long ago. Use words from
the book as you write.

4. Put Things in Order Name

Picture Credits
Every effort has been made to secure permission and provide appropriate credit for photographic material. the things that are done and
The publisher deeply regrets any omission and pledges to correct errors called to its attention in subsequent editions.

Photo locators denoted as follows: Top (T), Center (C), Bottom (B), Left (L), Right (R), Background (Bkgd). the machines that are used as
1 Getty Images; 4 (CR) Age Fotostock; 5 Getty Images; 8 Lloyd Sutton/Masterfile Corporation;
9 George D. Lepp/Corbis; 15 Getty Images. wood goes from the tree to
Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the copyright © of Dorling Kindersley, a division of Pearson.
the sawmill.

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Growing Food Seed drill

Food comes from many places. Some food

grows on farms. Machines help farmers grow
food. Machines are a kind of technology.
Technology is using science to solve problems.
Farming machines have changed over time.

Planting and Growing

Green Beans
Plows make the soil ready. Seed drills
help farmers plant bean seeds. Machines
make the work take less time. Machines
make the work easier.

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From the Farm
To the Store
The beans grow. They are ready.
The farmers will harvest the beans. The green beans are picked from the plant.
Sometimes farmers use machines. They are put on a truck. Off they go to the store!

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Tools to Make Serving Pizza
It is time to eat. Tools can help. What tools
Dinner can we use to serve the pizza?

Tools make work easier. Each tool does

a different job. Let’s make pizza for dinner!
What tools do we need?

Rolling pin Spoon Knife Grater Pizza

Pizza cutter

Spatula
Dough Sauce Vegetables Cheese

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 Getting Wood
Long ago people used hand
tools to cut down trees. They
used rivers to move the logs.
Now technology has changed.
Big machines help cut and
move logs. Tree shears help cut
logs. Grapplers help move logs.

Moving Logs
Trucks take the logs to a sawmill. Machines
help move the logs on and off the trucks.
Machines also help cut the logs into boards.

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 Simple A wheel and axle is a simple machine.
A wheel and axle is used to move things.
Machines The things on this page have wheels and axles.

A simple machine is
a tool. It has few or no
moving parts. It makes Car
work easier. Simple
machines help do many
different jobs.
A wedge is a simple
machine. A wedge is
used to push things Bicycle Wheelbarrow
apart. The red tool in
the log is a wedge. Truck

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Using Simple
A pulley is a
Machines simple machine.
A pulley can
A screw is a simple move things up
machine. A screw is used and down. It uses Pulley
to hold things together. a rope and wheel.
Do you see two
pulleys?

Screw

A lever is a simple An inclined plane is a simple machine.

machine. A lever is used An inclined plane is high at one end.
to lift something. It is low at the other end. It makes things
easier to move.

Inclined plane

Lever

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Tools To
Communicate
Long ago people did not have
the technology we have now.
There were no computers, cameras,
televisions, or radios. Now we
communicate using all these things.

Radio

Television
Computer

Technology has changed. Long ago tools

and machines were different. Look around your
world. What tools and machines do you use?
Camera

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 Glossary
Vocabulary What did you learn?
inclined plane
inclined a simple machine with one 1. What do machines help
lever
plane high end and one low end farmers do?
pulley
screw
lever a simple machine that is used 2. What are some tools you can
simple machine
to lift something find in a kitchen?
technology
wedge
pulley a simple machine that uses
3. Technology
wheel and aaxle
wheel and rope to move things
has changed over time. Write to
screw a simple machine that holds name some of the machines and
things together tools we use that people did not
have long ago. Use words from
simple a tool with few or no moving the book as you write.
machine parts that makes work easier
4. Put Things in Order Name
technology use of scientific knowledge
Picture Credits
Every effort has been made to secure permission and provide appropriate credit for photographic material. the things that are done and
to solve problems
The publisher deeply regrets any omission and pledges to correct errors called to its attention in subsequent editions.

Photo locators denoted as follows: Top (T), Center (C), Bottom (B), Left (L), Right (R), Background (Bkgd). the machines that are used as
1 Getty Images; 4 (CR) Age Fotostock; 5 Getty Images; 8 Lloyd Sutton/Masterfile Corporation;
wedge a simple machine used to
9 George D. Lepp/Corbis; 15 Getty Images. wood goes from the tree to
Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the copyright © of Dorling Kindersley, a division of Pearson.
push things apart the sawmill.

wheel and
ISBN: 0-328-13767-7 a simple machine used to
axle move things
Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America.
This publication is protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any
prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form by any means, electronic,
mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to
Permissions Department, Scott Foresman, 1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025.

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