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Week 12


We finished up our unit on simple machines this week!

The younger class was unable to watch this video on incline planes, so if you have a chance please take a look.






We had a wonderful time making marble runs this week.  We have some amazing engineers in our classes.  Here is a video showing how to make a marble run if you would like to make your own.








https://youtu.be/IN0Wn0XgPXQ




Optional Homework:

Build a Rube Goldberg's Machine using simple machines.   Rube Goldberg was a cartoonist that is known for drawing complicated machines to do simple tasks.  Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to design a machine using simple machines that will result in poping a balloon.  See the video below for an example.


Take a video of the machine or bring it in January for us to see first hand.  Have fun inventing!




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