August 31 - I will have Techies open your computer to adobe and the selected engineering games.
Sept. 1 - Video of Simple Machines
Sept. 3 - Select the link to Engineering Games below. It will lead you to a simple machines gaming site to challenge your problem solving abilities while learning the aspects of simple machines. When you achieve the final level - screen shot it and send it to me - BEFORE you play it. http://www.engineering.com/GamesPuzzles/DynamicSystems.aspx
Sept. 21 thru October 9th -Rube Goldberg
Using things you can find around the house, paper towel cardboard tubes, hot wheel tracks, hot wheel cars, marbles, toy vehicles, balls, string or yarn, pieces of wood, lego gears and pullies, dominoes, etc.
Make a Rube Goldberg contraption that will raise a flag. You must use 5 of the 6 simple machines and you must use 4 of them more than once. I don't care how large the flag is, so long as it is a flag that is raised at the end of your Rube Goldberg project.
Video the performance in its entirety and submit it to me for your grade. mhehnke@winterset.k12.ia.us
Oct. 12 thru Oct. 16 - Parachute Drop Slowest decent
Using things from around the home, i.e: Tissue paper, plastic bag, string, rubber bands, a 1" flat washer as cargo weight, scotch or masking tape, straws, a hole punch, sissors, stapler, paper clip, etc.
surface area of the parachute can be NO Bigger than 2' x 2' square and the flat washer must be used as the cargo weight.
Film and record the time it takes for the washer to hit the floor when dropped at chest level from the second floor to make contact with the first floor.
Oct. 23 thru Oct. 29 - Please refer to Google classroom for specific details
Rube Goldberg research video's to watch what one is and to see what is expected of the assignment
Work to complete a Rube Goldberg Project that will raise a flag