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ACTIVITY: Rube Goldberg Machine

Project: Rube Goldberg Project: Motion and the Physics of Change

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Assessments: Performance/presentation (i.e. speech, play), Other (enter below)

Additional Assessment Type: model machine

 

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Students design and build a Rube Goldberg Machine using the properties of Physics that connects two parallel lines of study – viewing the motion of change in Neverwhere in both a physical and literary manner. For exhibition, students present/demonstrate their machines and their relationship to the novel Neverwhere.

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