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How can Simple Machines help me design a Rube Goldberg Machine?According to RubeGoldberg.com, 'Rube Goldberg was a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist best known for his zany invention cartoons.' He was an engineer who loved drawing. The site goes on to share, 'Rube Goldberg is the only person ever to be listed in the dictionary as an adjective. A Rube Goldberg Machine is a 'comically involved, complicated invention, laboriously contrived to perform a simple operation' (according to Webster's New World Dictionary).'WebQuestObjective: To identify, name, and apply Simple Machines into a unique machine.Task: Visit each website listed and complete the handout. Make sure you record your responses!
Now that you have become an expert on Simple Machines, plan, create, test, and improve your own Rube Goldberg Machine! Your machine must incorporate at least two Simple Machines...choose wisely!
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