Rube Goldberg Project

Welcome to the Rube Goldberg Project!

You will invent your own Rube Goldberg that will be put on display in South's Student Showcase night on April 17th.  The purpose of the project is for you to be creative, inventive, and to demonstrate some of the science ideas you have learned this year.

Here is the rubric for your Rube Goldberg Project.

Here are some videos to get you thinking:

• OK GO's "This Too Shall Pass" Video
• Honda's Rube Goldberg commercial
• 8th Grade Rube Goldberg video with connection to science learning
• Another 8th Grade Rube
• A rube with a cool chemical change
• A mini-Rube
• Proof you don't need a lot of stuff to build a cool Rube

And some nifty links:

• http://www.rubegoldberg.com/
• http://mousetrapcontraptions.com/index.html
• http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/sci/rubegoldberginventio.html

Science Ideas Covered Thus Far

• Scientific Method
• Matter
• Mass
• Weight
• Density
• States of Matter
• Physical Properties of Matter
• Chemisty
• Atoms and Molecules
• Mixtures and Compounds
• Physical and Chemical Changes
• Law of Conservation of Mass
• Speed and Acceleration
• Newton's Laws
• Balanced and Unbalanced Forces
• Law of Conservation of Energy
• Energy Transfer
• Kinetic and Potential Energy
• Light
• Electricity