The hook into Rube Goldberg Projects

This day is basically a hook to get students excited about the project Preparation before: Basic knowledge of terms of physics (velocity, acceleratio...

 

Project Planning continued

During this day, work is primarily student centered. They will be working with their groups to start off project planning and putting together ideas ...

 

Assigning group roles and starting a formal proposal

This is a benchmark to assure that people will be assigned work equitably and also know what they are responsible for. The roles break down as thus: ...

 

Project building. Should take 2 or more days

Students should have brought in materials for the building of their project. They will start building and putting together the project, keeping in mi...

 

Calculating different aspects of physics in your Rube Goldberg device

In these days, students are responsible for finding different physics concepts that are present in their Rube Goldberg device. The physics concepts c...

 

Writing a script for the presentation (can be also done during project building and calculations)

Students will work on a script to describe their project and also the physics involved during this time. Here is the background for what should be do...

 

Presenting your Rube Goldberg Device to the class

In this, Students will present their work to the class, and describe what is happening in their machine. See the description below... OUR TASK: We w...