Inquiry | Rube Goldberg | Simple Machine

LI: To make a working Rube Goldberg machine with the 6 simple machines.

There are 6 simple machines. They are: Pulley, Screw, Inclined Plane, Wedge, Wheel and Axle and a Lever. We needed to use these 6 simple machines to create our own Rube Goldberg machines to complete one of three scenarios. The three scenarios we had to choose from I were: Tipping dice out of a cup, putting a ball into a cup and turning on a netbook. We needed to try to make a successful working Rube Goldberg machine using as many of the simple machines as we could. Rube Goldberg created machines to complete tasks in simple ways. The task we had to complete was trying to turn on a chromebook and the materials we used were four wooden shapes, one meter ruler,toy car,  yoyo, container, string, and a cup..the simple machines we used were the pulley, lever, inclined plane, and a wheel and axle.   

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Reflection 

Some of the challenges we faced were trying to cooperate as a group and share ideas because everyone had different ideas and it was hard to keep up with all the different ideas. 

Point of View

I think the reason our simple machine failed was because we kept changing things at the last minute and there were too many mistakes and un-observed parts to our machine. Something I think we could change or do differently is to test out the important parts to our machine and the kind of areas that set off other main parts to our machine.