Rube Goldberg Reflection #1
A couple weeks ago my teacher announced we were going to do our Rube Goldberg project. A Rube Goldberg is a machine that creates a chain reaction to do a simple task. When my teacher announced the project I already knew what a Rube Goldberg was, my sister had done the same project when she was in fifth grade. At first, I was a bit worried about the project, it takes a lot of time and effort to create a Rube Goldberg. I started doing my research with my friends, Cayden, and Luca. We wrote down some supplies, songs, and video format Ideas. After all the research I started working on my sketch. I made a lot of revisions along the way. The final result was this: Car goes down an inclined plane which hits mini skateboard, mini skateboard goes through lego house which hits dominos, dominos hit lego car wheel, lego car wheel goes through magnitle tube and hits lego car wheel which hits big magnitile, big magnitile hits catapult, hamster food gets launched into a bowl. The simple machines I used were an inclined plane, wheel and axle, and a lever. Dominos were really helpful because they could fall down well. But the big car was not helpful because I did not hit the mini skateboard. I think it will be hard to build this but I am up for the challenge.