Whiteboard AnimationEducation · Physics lesson · 1:41
Simple machines animation
Watch the six simple machines drawn step by step: a lever, a pulley, a wheel and axle, an inclined plane, a wedge and a screw. A hand-drawn whiteboard animation made from one illustration.
- Length
- 1:41 · 2 chapters
- Aspect ratio
- 4:3
- Colour starts at
- 1:17
- Style
- Lines + colour
- Formats
- 16:9 · 1:1 · 9:16
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The prompt behind the picture
Hand-drawn chart of the six simple machines, each drawn alone in its own soft rounded box, arranged in a tidy grid of three columns and two rows: a lever (a long wooden plank balanced on a small triangle, a box on one end and a hand pushing down on the other end); a pulley (a single grooved wheel hanging from a beam with a rope over it, a hand pulling one end of the rope down and a bucket lifted on the other end); a wheel and axle (a big wooden wheel fixed onto a thin rod, like a well winch with a crank handle); an inclined plane (a smooth wooden ramp with a box being pushed up the slope); a wedge (a steel axe head splitting a log); a screw (one large metal screw with a spiral thread around its shaft). Nothing else in the picture. Coloured pencil and watercolour marker, clean black ink outlines, warm off-white paper, no text.The picture came from an image model; any finished illustration works the same way, including one you drew. Use the prompt as a starting point for your own topic.
Simple machines, step by step
A script to read over it, timed to the drawing: the lines go down first and the colour arrives on the last beat.
- 0:00Line artSimple machines are tools with few moving parts that make work easier. There are six of them.
- 0:16A lever is a bar resting on a point. Push one end down, and the other end lifts the box.
- 0:31A pulley is a wheel with a rope over it. Pull the rope down, and the bucket goes up.
- 0:47A wheel and axle is a big wheel fixed to a rod. Turn the handle, and the rope winds onto the rod.
- 1:02ColourAn inclined plane is a ramp: pushing a box up a slope is easier than lifting it. A wedge, like an axe, splits things apart.
- 1:18A screw is like a ramp wrapped around a rod. Bigger machines are often made by putting these six together.
Where this simple machines animation fits
Use it in a physics or technology lesson on forces and work, to start a topic on how tools help us, or as a short clip in a kids’ science video. The same process turns your own diagram into a clip.
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