iArts Class Fall 2012 The Challenge Background Rube Goldbergs awardwinning cartoons satirized machines and gadgets These cartoons combined simple machines and common household items to create complex and wacky contraptions that accomplished mundane and trivial tasks ID: 193006
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Rube Goldberg Challenge
iArts ClassFall 2012 Slide2
The Challenge Background
Rube Goldberg’s award-winning cartoons satirized machines and gadgets. These cartoons combined simple machines and common household items to create complex and wacky contraptions that accomplished mundane and trivial tasks. His inventions became so widely known that Webster’s Dictionary added “Rube Goldberg” to its listing, defining it as “accomplishing by complex, roundabout means what seemingly could be done simply.”Slide3
Example of Rube Goldberg CartoonSlide4
Students’ Challenge
Students designed and built a Rube Goldberg machine. A good Rube Goldberg design incorporates the everyday machines people are used to seeing and connects them in ways that may seem wacky or ingenious. The students’ challenge was to construct a contraption that uses at least six different steps/stages to complete the following task:
Pop
a BalloonSlide5
Machine Guidelines
Some of the more challenging guidelines for this machine included:Having only one human interaction with the machine to start the actionThere must be at least three different simple machines used in the contraptionThe machine should have a themeEnergy must be transferred up at least three inches somewhere in the run of the machine
A Rube Goldberg machine should make you smile!Slide6
The BLU JONs
Builders League United, James – Olivia - NathanSlide7
Team Swag
Daniel – Noah - AlexSlide8
The Arts
Joanny – Aaron - CJSlide9
Three Neon Green Kikachus
Emma – Amelia - JordanSlide10
Challenge Wrap-up
All teams were successful in creating a contraption that met all the criteria AND popped the balloon! (Some kept us guessing right to the end)The engineering design process was deeply imbedded in this course with students experiencing successes, failures, and redesigns. I am extremely proud of the students’ success and the learning that took place during this course. They all
adapted to
working in a team,
developed
their talents in this process, and
had to depend on each other to accomplish this challenge. We all had an amazing experience!Mrs. Sharon Freeze, Librarian – Hilburn Academy