Rube Goldberg Machine

LI: to apply knowledge of simple machines to create a Rube Goldberg machine

We had to make a Rube Goldberg Machine that includes all of the six simple machines. We had to choose one of three challenges that the Rube Goldberg machine has to accomplish, the challenges that we had to choose from were rolling dice out of a cup, hitting a ball into a hole with a putt and to turn on a chrome book. The challenge that we chose was rolling dice out a cup. 

Our first plan was having an incline plane and a marble hit dominoes, that plan didn't work so we made another one. Our final plan was books hitting a backwards wedge down an incline plane to hit a person, that person will cut a string that is attached to a felt tip pen, the felt tip pen would drop and hit another person, that person will then push me and I will lift a chair from the back to make a car roll down an incline plane to hit the cup and roll the dice. 

The machine was challenging because the car got stuck in the tube and the felt tip pen didn't touch the person. For the levers we used books, for the incline plane we used two sticks and for another wheel & axle we used a cardboard tube, for the wedge we used a pyramid block and for the wheel & axle we used a car. I think that instead of the felt tip pen dropping on the person I think that the person behind could've used a ball  to roll it at the person, and for the car in the incline plane. The simple machines that my group used was a lever, an incline plane, a wedge and a wheel & axle.