Building a Rube Goldberg Machine
8th Grade · Technology · 40 min
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Learning Objective
I can design a multi-step Rube Goldberg machine to perform a simple task.
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A Rube Goldberg machine uses a chain reaction to accomplish a simple task in an overly complicated way.
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Two simple machines used in the cheese-serving machine were a lever and a pulley.
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Rube Goldberg was an artist and engineer who drew cartoons of wacky inventions that performed simple tasks.
