Find all the simple machines in the Rube Goldberg Cartoon “Pencil Sharpener” and fill out
the chart on the back of your worksheet.

Open window (A) and fly kite (B). String (C) lifts small door (D) allowing moths (E) to escape
and eat red flannel shirt (F). As weight of shirt becomes less, shoe (G) steps on switch (H) which heats electric iron (I)
and burns hole in pants (J). Smoke (K) enters hole in tree (L), smoking out opossum (M) which jumps into basket (N), pulling
rope (O) and lifting cage (P), allowing woodpecker (Q) to chew wood from pencil (R), exposing lead. Emergency knife (S) is
always handy in case opossum or the woodpecker gets sick and can't work.
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