Crazy Contraptions: Build Rube Goldberg Machines that Swoop, Spin, Stack, and Swivel

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An exciting book about the chain reaction world of Rube Goldberg for middle schoolers, including 25 engineering design projects that get middle schoolers applying the laws of physics to their own inventions as they learn the scientific principles behind the actions and reactions they create.Why use a simple hand motion to wipe your mouth when you can build a machine to do it for you? Toppling dominoes, rolling marbles, racing balloon cars, springing catapults, and whizzing zip-lines are all elements used to build Rube Goldberg machines in Crazy Contraptions: Build Rube Goldberg Machines that Swoop, Spin, Stack, and Swivel with Hands-On Engineering Activities. The book introduces kids ages 9-12 (and beyond!) to the wacky machines designed by Goldberg, which were based on complicated chain reactions used to accomplish very simple, sometimes ridiculous, tasks. Through contraptions, the book discusses the basics of physics, including force, motion, and work. Each chapter introduces one of the six simple machines and how they can be used in Rube Goldberg contraptions-inclined planes, levers, wheels and axles, wedges, screws, and pulleys. Kids are challenged to design, build, and evaluate dozens of increasingly complex contraptions that do things like unscrew a lid, turn the page of a book, and pop a balloon. Projects use materials already in most homes-reimagining and repurposing everyday items, as well as mining the recycling! Contraption hints, essential questions, short sidebars, and links to online primary resources help readers learn the basics of force, work, motion, and simple machines, while exploring their creativity as they design and build their own crazy contraptions.About the Build It Engineering set and Nomad PressCrazy Contraptions is part of a set of two Build It Engineering books that explore the engineering technology behind our daily lives. The other titles in this series is Bots! Robotic Engineering with Hands-On Makerspace Activities.Nomad Press books in the Build It series integrate content with participation. Combining content with inquiry-based projects stimulates learning and makes it active and alive. Nomad's unique approach simultaneously grounds kids in factual knowledge while allowing them the space to be curious, creative, and critical thinkers.All books are leveled for Guided Reading level and Lexile and align with Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards. All titles are available in paperback, hardcover, and ebook formats.

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Publié par	Nomad Press
Date de parution	08 octobre 2019
Nombre de lectures	1
EAN13	9781619308251
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	50 Mo

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LAURA PERDEW ILLUSTRATED BY MICAH RAUCH

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LAURA PERDEW ILLUSTRATED BY MICAH RAUCH

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CONTENTS

Timeline. . . iv Introduction Meet Rube Goldberg . . . 1 Chapter 1 Things You Should Know Before You Get Started . . . 12 Chapter 2 Play With Inclined Planes . . . 25 Chapter 3 Looking at Levers . . . 36 Chapter 4 Whoa! Wheels and Axles! . . . 48 Chapter 5 Plucky Pulleys . . . 60 Chapter 6 Interested in Primary Wild About Wedges . . . 74Sources? Look for this icon. Chapter 7 Use a smartphone or Savvy About Screws . . . 86 tablet app to scan the QR code and explore more! Photos are Chapter 8 also primary sources because Go Big! . . . 100 a photograph takes a picture at the moment something happens. You can ﬁnd a list of Glossary  Metric Conversions URLs on the Resources page. If the QR code doesn’t work, try Resources  Essential Questions  Index searching the internet with the Keyword Prompts to ﬁnd other helpful sources. Rube Goldberg

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CRAZY CONTRAPTIONS TIMELINE

About 2.5 million. . . .During the Stone Age, early years agohumans use wedges made of stone as a cutting tool.

About 200,000. . . . . .Early humans begin to years agouse levers as tools.

3500 BCE . . . . . . . . . .People in Mesopotamia ﬁrst use the wheel and axle as a pottery wheel.

Circa 3000 BCE. . . . . .First known use of the chariot.

Circa 2500 BCE. . . . . .The Egyptians begin building the pyramids using inclined planes.

Circa 1500 BCE. . . . . .The Mesopotamians use a pulley system to lift water.

Seventh century BCE . .Mesopotamians use large screws as a tool to raise water for irrigation.

Third century BCE. . . .Archimedes discovers how levers work. He also explains the mechanical advantage of pulleys.

Fifteenth century CE. .The printing press is invented using a screw press.

Seventeenth century . .Sir Isaac Newton develops the laws of gravity and later presents his three laws of motion.

TIMELINE

1743 . . . . . . . . . . . . .The ﬁrst known elevator for humans, which uses a pulley system, is installed in the Palace of Versailles in France for King Louis XV.

1858 . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Landis Mason designs a screwon lid to secure lids onto jars used for canning fruits and vegetables.

July 4, 1883 . . . . . . . .Rube Goldberg is born in California.

1903 . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mary Anderson patents windshield wipers, which are a type of lever.

1949 . . . . . . . . . . . . .The ﬁrst Rube Goldberg machine contest is held at Purdue University in Indiana.

1968 . . . . . . . . . . . . .The Mattel toy company launches the ﬁrst Hot Wheels toy cars.

December 7, 1970 . . . .Rube Goldberg dies, leaving behind a legacy of humor and “inventions” that serve as inspiration for engineering crazy contraptions.

1988 . . . . . . . . . . . . .The Rube Goldberg machine contest is revived with the assistance of the Goldberg family, and becomes an annual event.

1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . .A U.S. stamp is issued featuring the SelfOperating Napkin cartoon in honor of Rube Goldberg.

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MEET RUBE GOLDBERG

Have you ever watced a îne o domînoes a? Have you ever payed te gameMouse Trap? Do you îke to tînk o compex ways to accompîs sîmpe tasks?

You mîgt ove doîngRube Goldberg–îke projects wîtout even knowîng wat tey’re caed! hîs îs wat we ca actîvîtîes tat învove creatîng a serîes o caîn reactîons to perorm a specîIc task. And not just any kînd o task: one tat woud be ar easîer to sîmpy do wît your two ands, but wîc ends up beîng a ot o un wen you desîgn an entîre macîne around te task.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION

What was Rube Goldberg’s contribution to engineering?

Sound crazy? Let’s meet te man wo started tîs craze!

WORDS TO KNOW

Rube Goldberg:a person whose name is used as an adjective. It describes accomplishing by complex means what seemingly could be done simply.

Introduction

WORDS TO KNOW

CRAZY CONTRAPTIONS

engineer:someone who uses math, science, and creativity to solve problems and build things. contraption:a newfangled or complicateddevice. device:a piece of equipment meant to do certain things, such as a phone. chain reaction:a series of events in which one action causes the next one and so on. convoluted:complex and difﬁcult to follow. pulley:a simple machine consisting of a wheel with agroovedrim that a rope or chain is pulled through to help lift up a load. groove:a line cut into a surface, often made in order to guide something such as rope along the rim of a wheel in a pulley system. simple machine:a tool that uses one movement to complete work. catapult:a device used to hurl or launch something.

MEET RUBE

More tan a undred years ago, a man named Reuben Lucîus Godberg (1883–1970) was born on Juy 4, 1883, în San Francîsco, Caîornîa. Wo knew tîs cîd woud ave a proound efect on te way mîîons o peope tougt about engîneerîng? Wo knew e woud grow up to make so many peope aug and wonder?

Eary on, Rube was înterested în art. By age eîgt, îs înterest ad turned înto a passîon. Rube oved creatîng îne drawîngs and tracîng pîctures rom newspapers and magazînes. Rube’s ater wasn’t too keen on îs son’s înterest în art, toug. So, wen Rube grew up, e went to coege to become anengineer. He graduated rom UC Berkeey în 1904 wît an engîneerîng degree. Aterward, e worked or te Cîty o San Francîsco’s Water and Sewer Department desîgnîng pîpe systems.

Meet Rube Goldberg

RubeGoldberg with his wife and children in 1929. Members of Goldberg’s family still run his estate.

Ater ony sîx monts, e quît. ïnstead, Rube Godberg started workîng or a San Francîsco newspaper. Wîe e was tere, e submîtted cartoons and drawîngs to te newspaper’s edîtorîa staf, opîng to get pubîsed. But Godberg oten dîscovered îs cartoons în te edîtor’s tras bîn!

hen, one day, e was gîven te cance to sketcatetes or te sports sectîon. he newspaper staf soon dîscovered tey sod more papers wen tere were more pîctures. Wy do you tînk tîs was?

Once te paper began runnîng a coor cartoon sectîon, Godberg Inay ad a pace or îs cartoons. Hîs career ad begun. Eventuay, e moved across te country to New York Cîty, New York. hat’s were îs work as a cartoonîst became even more popuar and e became amous.

Godberg was a great cartoonîst, but e became a ouseod name because o te eaborate, overy compîcated, îarîous, crazycontraptionse drew. hese contraptîons were extremey compîcatedchain reactionstat, în te end, perormed very sîmpe tasks. Some o îs wacky contraptîons încude an automatîc back-scratcer, an aarm cock, a se-openîng umbrea, a “sîmpîIed” pencî sarpener, and a ly swatter. He aso created an orange squeezer or res orange juîce în te mornîng and even ad an eaborate pan or puîng an oîve out o a jar. This short video will he contraptîons Rube Godberg învented give you a quick were unny not ony because tey were so introduction to the convoluted, but because tey oten încuded world of Rube Goldberg unusua parts. He used anîmas în te desîgns.machines.Have you ever built a Rube Goldberg machine before? Did He aso used sprîngs,pulleysand oter it meet your objective? simple machines, rockets, eaters, metîng îce, escaators, Ire,catapults, and more.Rube Goldberg legacy Vimeo