GRADE 8 - FINAL PROJECT

RUBE GOLDBERG

DUE: MAY 22, 2018

MR. O’BRIEN

40% OF FINAL PRACTICAL GRADE

INTRODUCTION

For this year’s Final Project, students will build, test, and run their

RUBE GOLDBERG machine. Students will coordinate with other groups in

class in order to make a class wide RUBE GOLDBERG project.

Students will be graded on the following criteria:

- The construction

A) in class and in workshop behaviour (10%)

B) sturdiness of the machine (10%)

- Aesthetic look of the machine (10%)

- Does the machine work (30%)

- The coordination of your group machine with the other group(s)

involved (20%)

- Completion of a worksheet (20%)

SPECIFICATIONS OF THE MACHINE

The machine MUST have the following components to it:

- It MUST start and finish at PRECISELY the specified measurements

that the group was given.

- There MUST be at least THREE (3) transitions.

- The machine MUST work without help

PROCEDURE

STEP 1: Create a BLUE PRINT for your machine in your mind

STEP 2: Find and assemble all the necessary MATERIALS you will

need

STEP 3: Build your machine as sturdy and as strong as possible

taking into account that there must be 3 transitions, the material

you are using, the notions of mass & force, and that you must

coordinate with other group(s).

STEP 4: Test & retest your machine so that you will have an

optimal performance on TEST DAY.

STEP 5: Complete the Student Worksheet

STUDENT WORKSHEET

NAME: ____________________

____________________

1. Did your machine work? If not, where was the problem and how could

you have prevented this?

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________2. How would you assess the dynamic of your team? Was the work done

equally amongst the teammates or did someone do the majority of the

work? Explain.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________3. What material(s) did you use for your machine? Did this help or hinder

your machine? Explain what (if anything) you would have used as a

material differently to make your machine better.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Did you decide to revise your original design or did you need additional

materials while in the construction phase? Why? Why not?

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________5. Do you think that engineers have to adapt their original plans during the construction of systems or products? Why? Why not?

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________6. What designs, materials, or methods did other teams use that you

thought worked well?

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________7. How difficult was it to coordinate with the other group(s) in order to

create a CLASS machine?

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

8. What were some of the obstacles or challenges that your team

encountered as you were building your machine?

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________9. What were your three (3) transitions? Explain them.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________10. What was the best part of doing this project?

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

GRADING RUBRIC

20% 40% 60% 80% 100%BEHAVIOUR

(10%)

Several behavioural or time management problems

There were behavioural problems or times where there was no work being done

AVERAGE shop behaviour and time management

VERY GOOD shop behaviour and time management

PERFECT shop behaviour and time management

STURDINESS

(10%)

Machine is practically FALLING APART

Machine is unsafe and unsturdy. Looks like it will fall apart. Not well put together

Machine is FAIRLY sturdy but could have been built better

Machine is well built Machine is built to be indestructible

AESTHETICS

(10%)

Machine looks UGLY Machine does not look nice, looks CHEAPLY made and certain parts of it prohibit its movement

Machine looks NATURAL and its look doesn’t prohibit its movement

Machine looks natural and its look ADDS to the movement

Machine has added features that PROMOTE not only the look but adds to its movement

MACHINE

(30%)

Did not work Did not work from START to FINISH even with a little help

Works from START to FINSH with very little help

Works from START to FINISH with NO help

Works from START to FINISH with NO help and complex maneuvering

COORDINATION

(20%)

There was NO coordination between groups

There was one or more coordinating points missing between groups

Groups were loosely coordinated together so that it worked with a little help

Groups were properly coordinated so that it worked without help

Groups were PRECISELY coordinated so that it worked smoothly without help

RUBRIC GRADE (80%): _______

WORKSHEET GRADE (20%): _______

TOTAL: _______