Left to Your Own Devices

Your team will design a multi-step machine to perform a simple task

using at least one of each of the six simple machines.

Here are the steps for you to follow. /////////////

...............................1- Investigate: Simple Machines, and ////////

...................................Rube Goldberg's "Inventions" /

...............................2- Study the rubric

...............................3- Have a team discussion

...............................4- Brainstorm ideas

...............................5- Begin sketching!

...............................6- Write a paragraph describing

...................................your device.

 

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Credits: Pamela Mozdy-Allen

4/2002