Jordan and I started building our machine! I was really excited in the beginning to then realize it wasn’t as easy as it seemed. I thought that all we had to do was copy the sketch. That was true, but we also had to make sure everything was standing and in the right spot. We also had to find the materials we were using.

Our first thing was making the ramp. It didn’t take too long and it was pretty simple. Then we had to put books out like dominoes. The books had to be high so we put books flat below them. Keeping the books still and not shaking the table while standing up the other books was very hard. They kept falling! Once that was finished that part, we tried it. It started out by “Rube Goldberg” calling us. Then we set it up again and added one more step. We added a ramp. It took us a little while to decide on what we were going to do for the ramp then we found a little car track that would go down a stack of books. A marble would then go down that ramp and hit dominoes. This was the hardest part. Getting the dominoes to stand! Once we built that we kept doing it over and over.

During our whole learning process we learned it took a lot of patience. We had only done 4 steps so far. ( half of the whole thing) and we already tried it so many times. The good thing is that some steps taught us what other steps would be like.