Rube Goldberg Machines
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How can we use simple machines to complete a task?
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Entry Event:
Click on the picture below to watch a Rube Goldberg in action on America's Got Talent.
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Rube Goldberg was a cartoonist who was famous for his depiction of extremely complicated inventions designed to complete simple tasks.
A sample description might be a golf ball rolls down a ramp otherwise known as an inclined plane (action), and lands in a paper cup attached to a pulley with a counter weight, that is tripped by the movement of the ball (reaction). The pulley transports the cup with the ball in it to a higher track made of PVC pipe where it is deposited (action) and rolls to another point where another component moves it further (reaction). The objective of this project is to design and build a Rube Goldberg Machine with at least five (5) distinctive steps and three different simple machines. |
There are many jobs that use simple machines. In fact, simple machines can be found in almost anything we do - even at school. Think about the tools we use in our school garden, the school busses, the tables in the cafeteria... can you find the simple machines in these places.
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Simple Machines PBL:
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