Bailey, Gerry, 1945- Robotx get help from simple machines.

Includes index

The robots' workshop -- The wedge -- Splitting wood -- Monkey wedge -- Wedges at work -- Sheep-shearing -- Rounded wedges -- Your wedges -- Bird cutters -- Machines together -- Robbo's science -- Workshop

"Splitting Apart explores the benefits and uses of the wedge. RobbO and RobbEE need to build a wedge-shaped machine to move the snow piled outside their workshop. They find lots of other uses for a wedge, too."--

Ages 5-8

K to grade 3

AD610L

Decoding demand: 73 (high) Semantic demand: 92 (very high) Syntactic demand: 90 (very high) Structure demand: 83 (very high)