Build your own contraption!
Print books will be available from Mrs. Pappas
Click on links below for digital resources
What is a Rube Goldberg machine?
Read this for more information:
Using Simple Machines to Solve Life's Problems
Print books will be available from Mrs. Pappas
Click on links below for digital resources
What is a Rube Goldberg machine?
Read this for more information:
Using Simple Machines to Solve Life's Problems
Play the Rube Works game!
Click HERE for a list of materials you can find in your home to build your contraption
Click HERE for a list of materials you can find in your home to build your contraption
Print books
The way things work now, by David Macaulay
Rube Goldberg Inventions, by Maynard Frank Wolf
Crazy Contraptions, by Laura Perdew
Build your own chain reaction machines, by Paul Long
Rube Goldberg Inventions, by Maynard Frank Wolf
Crazy Contraptions, by Laura Perdew
Build your own chain reaction machines, by Paul Long
articles
A-MAZE-ING inventions (Boy's LIfe)
How2Make It (Boy's Life)
Rube Goldberg research starter (Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia)
How2Make It (Boy's Life)
Rube Goldberg research starter (Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia)
video resourceS
TikTok video - this is a great example of what you can do!
How to Make a Rube Goldberg Machine (YouTube)
10 Chain Reaction Tips: build a Rube Goldberg machine (YouTube)
How to Make a Rube Goldberg Machine (YouTube)
10 Chain Reaction Tips: build a Rube Goldberg machine (YouTube)
Ebooks
Cool Engineering Projects, by Rebecca Felix
Creative Machines, by Dona Rice
Fun Experiments with Forces and Motion, by Rob Ives
Build It: invent new structures and contraptions, by Tammy Enz
Zoom It: invent new machines that move, by Tammy Enz
Engineers Build Models, by Reagan Miller
Creative Machines, by Dona Rice
Fun Experiments with Forces and Motion, by Rob Ives
Build It: invent new structures and contraptions, by Tammy Enz
Zoom It: invent new machines that move, by Tammy Enz
Engineers Build Models, by Reagan Miller