Rube Goldberg Machines
Your Assignment
• Option A
– Draw a Rube Goldberg cartoon depicting 20
different simple machines using the six
simple machines that you have learned. You
must use ALL 6 machines!
– Label each machine correctly
– Define the task that your Rube Goldberg
machine is to accomplish.
• Option B
– Design and build a Rube Goldberg style contraption
with at least 4 simple machines.
– Do this at home and bring in for grade.
– Machines must be from one of the six simple
machines learned in class. You must use at least 2
different machines
– Objective is to either smash a grape or flip over a
playing card.
– Extra credit for this route! Extra credit for using 4
different machines.