Category: 5th Grade

My last meeting with my partner we successfully completed our rube Goldberg, the machine finally did what it was built for. So when we met again we new we had to do the last part of the project the video. We had to make a video so that we can present our rube Goldberg to our class.

The first thing we did was look over the video to see how it was it was good but not good enough so we had to run it again but from different angles this time. But we were still going to put the first time in our video. So we did it again and it worked so we started making the video on jasper’s dad’s computer.

So we started uploading everything onto Imovie, were we put the videos in order and everything started to fit and look good so then we watched it and it was very good even though we still had to do more changes on the video.

Yesterday Jasper and I met again to work on our project. The project is at Jasper’s house, so when I’m not at his house he tries to think of new ideas so do I and test things we have so far in our project. We had to figure out “do we really have these items”. So what we’ve did is we new we had to come up with something else so we did and it looked much different then the first drawing. The hardest thing was having to try to figure out if this part of the project will work every time. We had some help from our mom’s they helped more with the testing part we dad the part we’re you try to figure out what comes next.

 

Soon jasper and I will meet again. Next we will start building again and attempt our first try to do the whole thing will our fully built machine. We might have to make some more iterations. Hopefully we can get the rest of the project almost done.

So yesterday I met with my rube Goldberg partner jasper. last time he and I met we planned our machine out and drew it and wrote down a list of materials. This time was much more fun and exiting we met at his house where we’re doing our project. We we’re building our machine and we new it would be hard with our heavy materials. So we had to look over our plan and materials for what we needed to do.

When we started we looked at our materials and got the materials we needed. We realized that we did not get the little materials that we needed like tape or glue. After we got that sorted out we started building. We put together our first thing a little swirly thing we’re a marble goes through to the next obstacle.

We we’re having some trouble with the first part either sticking the swirly thing up to high or it falling over. We tested it a couple of times and tried to put some domino’s on it but it would not hold the dominoes so we had to change our plan bye making something go under it so the domino’s would stay on the ramp. I bet by the end of the project we would have done so many iterations to our first drawing.