Best Of The Best The rube goldberg Machine Contest for high schoolers brings the ideas of Use Archeology to teach about history DIG magazine and a collection of books http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/sem/sembb.html
Extractions: The index of Websites for Talent Development includes lesson plans, on-line projects, curriculum sites, and resource centers. We are indebted to Gil Dyrli, professor emeritus of the University of Connecticut, Curriculum Administrator magazine's technology editor. Resources With Sample Lesson/Unit Plans This site is organized into three categories of Type II skills: creative thinking, critical thinking, and problem solving in math and science. Resources are designated at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. In addition, science teachers can access resources for selected topic areas such as biology and physics.
Extractions: JETS Programs TEAMS Best Robotics Inc. Christopher Columbus Awards eCYBERMISSION ... ExploraVision A K-12 competition where small teams (of 2-4 students) explore an existing technology and project how it might work in the future. The competition is divided into four school grade categories (K-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12). 24 regional winners create a web site for their future technology, along with a prototype of their future technology. Four first-place teams each win a $10,000 Savings Bond, while four second-place teams each win a $5,000 bond. Sponsored by the National Science Teachers Association and Toshiba Corporation. FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competitions Future City Competition Middle school-based teams design (using SimCity software) and build physical models of their vision of a future city. Sponsored by National Engineers Week, a program of the National Society of Professional Engineers.
About The Model Academic Classroom The Project STAIRS consortium received funding through a teach Wisconsin Educational studied simple machines and developed rube goldberg contraptions. http://205.213.162.11/stairs_site/MAC.html
Extractions: Model Academic Classroom Quick Jump to STAIRS pages About Project STAIRS Resources for Teachers Professional Development Links Model Academic Classroom Administrator Links Workshop Links Resource Handouts Contact Information Site Map About Project STAIRS Information Resource Links ... Overview of the Units and Lesson Plans Teacher Resources The matrix contains links to resource materials that can support teachers in the planning process as they integrate technology into the classroom. Resources include: Classroom materials used by the teachers in the Model Classroom videos: unit plans student worksheets/guides assessment tools student work samples, when available
News Some of Mr. Riehle s AP Physics students created rube goldberg projects, Larry Chialastri will be teaching PE/Health part time and fill the remainder of http://www.foresthills.edu/oldturpin/news.htm
Extractions: Day 1: Wednesday, June 1, 2005 7:20 a.m. to 7:39 a.m. 1st period Exam Review and Attendance 7:43 a.m. to 7:56 a.m. 2nd period Exam Review 8:00 a.m. to 8:13 a.m. 3rd period Exam Review 8:17 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. 4th period Exam Review 8:34 a.m. to 8:47 a.m. 5th period Exam Review 8:51 a.m. to 9:04 a.m. 6th period Exam Review 9:08 a.m. to 9:21 a.m. 7th period Exam Review 9:25 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. 1st period EXAM 11:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Break 11:15 a.m. to 12:50 p.m. 2nd period EXAM 12:50 p.m. Dismissal Day 2: Thursday, June 2, 2005 7:20 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. 1st period Attendance 7:35 a.m. to 9:10 a.m. 3rd period EXAM 9:10 a.m. to 9:25 a.m. Break 9:25 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. 4th period EXAM 11:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Break 11:15 a.m. to 12:50 p.m. 5th period EXAM 12:50 p.m. Dismissal Day 3: Friday, June 3, 2005 7:20 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. 1st period Attendance 7:35 a.m. to 9:10 a.m.
GE Volunteers Projects - US New York GE Volunteers projects US New York. rube goldberg, 2002; P245 MachineCompetition, rube goldberg, 2001; P1032 Machine Contest, rube goldberg, 2002 http://www.elfun.org/volunteers/history.asp?state=NY&PL=ENG
Ahead Of The Curve: CHAPTER ONE For example, rube goldberg s LaborSaving Potato Masher works by the following Dr. Don Bailey supervised one of David s three small research projects, http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9029/9029.ch01.html
Extractions: Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman Great Neck was one of the many commutervilles lining the route of the Long Island Railroad in the years following World War II. This sleepy little New York town had become famous up and down Long Island for its excellent schools. Everyone at Great Neck High School was expected to go to a four-year college; higher education was both imperative and assumed. Here David Baltimore went to school. He was one of those students whom everyone referred to as "gifted," and when his brother came through the same classes four years later, the teachers still remembered David. In school, David had no particular direction in mind, and biology classes in the 1950s were unlikely to inspire budding scientists. David's biology class consisted entirely of memorization. He learned the parts of a fern, the pieces of a flower, how the five biological kingdoms were divided, the names of all of the classes in the animal kingdom, the organs of a frog. The course was descriptive; students were not encouraged to ask how or why, or to think about how to solve a problem. And laboratory experiments were far beyond the capacity of the high school classroom in time, resources, and knowledge. The world of research remained foreign to him.
February 2001 The rube goldberg projects give Explorers a chance to build a machine usingeveryday items and junk, designing a complex series of steps to accomplish a http://www.tacny.org/technologist/2001/issue0201.html
Extractions: Technology Club Newsletter for February 2001 POST 6201 Newsletter Several copies of the first newsletter for the 2000-2001 Explorer Program were recently mailed to the Technology Club and abbreviated versions of the major projects have been duplicated here in to present them to members of the technical societies. The Post Newsletter was published by and for the Engineering Explorer Post 6201 of the Hiawatha-Seaway Council's Exploring Division. This Post is sponsored by Lockheed Martin's Naval Electronics and Sensor Systems business in Syracuse New York. The Post meets at the Lockheed Martin Facilities several times each month. Membership in the Post is open to all youths between the ages of 14 and 20. More information about the Syracuse, NY 13221-4840 Most of the project teams will be finishing their meetings in December. Beginning in January, the Post will be having a series of outings at other local companies and see other types of Engineering in action. They are in the process of ordering T-shirts for each active Post member and will distribute them at a future meeting. The following towns are represented by the Explorer Post membership Rube Goldberg Project: Electronic Construction Project: Explorers in this project are getting the chance to do a lot of "hands on" construction of electronic circuits. They started out with the basics of how to safely use the tools such as wire cutters and soldering irons. Then on to learning how to read an engineering drawing, schematic, parts list and assembly procedure. They experimented with a number of simple circuits to learn about electronic components: how to distinguish a diode from a capacitor; how to tell the value of a resistor, how to tell the polarity of an LED (light emitting diode).
Elaine B. Griffin Griffin, whose range of teaching excellence spans subject areas from or workon individual multicultural projects and rube goldberglike inventions. http://www.ccsso.org/projects/National_Teacher_of_the_Year/National_Teachers/191
Extractions: select Alabama Alaska American Samoa Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Col... DoDEA Florida Georgia Guam Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Northern Marian... Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virgin Islands Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming The White House Rose Garden April 28, 1995 Washington, D.C.- (April 1995) Elaine B. Griffin, a native New Yorker who has helped revolutionize education in two remote Alaskan villages over the past 20 years, has been named the 1995 National Teacher of the Year. Ms Griffin, head teacher of Alaska's Kodiak Island Chiniak School, was honored at a White House Rose Garden ceremony, where President Clinton presented her with a crystal apple, the traditional symbol of teaching. The National Teacher of the Year Program is the oldest and most prestigious awards program to focus public attention on excellence in teaching. Now in its 44th year, the program is sponsored by the Council of Chief State School Officers and Scholastic Inc.
Exploring Science Teaching Strategies In Seattle The center s staff works on more than 500 research projects. In this workshop,attendees made a rube goldberg device out of various materials, http://www.nsta.org/main/news/stories/nsta_story.php?news_story_ID=49995
Project Deliverables DUE-0127139 The curriculum is developed to use the RPI studio approach to teach an Weekly creativity/teamwork excersizes; Three week rube goldberg design challenge http://www.humboldt.edu/~eae1/CCLI02/deliverables.htm
Extractions: Introductory Environmental Engineering and Science Students Eileen Cashman and Beth Eschenbach - Co-PIs Project Deliverables Project Assessment Project Dissemination The curriculum is developed into as set of modules relevant to enviromental scientists and engieners. Each module comprises of Modules are available on the following topics The curriculum is developed to use the RPI studio approach to teach an Introduction to Design course to first year environmental resources engineering students. The curriculum is tranferable to other engineering disciplines. Curriculum available from this course include
The Rube Goldberg Project The rube goldberg Science Project. January 2004. What is a rube goldberg machine?It is a machine that makes things far more complicated than they should be http://www.asij.ac.jp/elementary/gr4web/c4f/professional/teaching/subjects/ss_sc
Extractions: Index Abbey Ami Brian ... Teacher Page The Rube Goldberg Science Project January 2004 What is a Rube Goldberg machine? It is a machine that makes things far more complicated than they should be. What it does is take a very simple method, like sharpening a pencil or eating a banana, and make it hard. It is done by taking a group of ordinary objects and connecting them with a bunch of simple machines in a weird, but workable, way. Knowing what people know takes many forms. In this case, rather than a written science test, the students had a chance to combine what they learned in language arts, science and technology into an exciting and fun project. It allowed them: to be an inventor and use the invention steps they had learned. to show how the Force science concepts can be used. to demonstrates their knowledge of simple machines. to use good ideas, organization and mechanics in an interesting paragraph explaining how their Rube Goldberg machine worked. to be creative and artistic. to construct something fun out of their heads using materials that they could find around their homes.
Extractions: Skip Navigation You Are Here ENC Home ENC Features Classroom Calendar Search the Site More Options Don't lose access to ENC's web site! Beginning in August, goENC.com will showcase the best of ENC Online combined with useful new tools to save you time. Take action todaypurchase a school subscription through goENC.com Classroom Calendar By Category By Month ... Ask ENC Explore online lesson plans, student activities, and teacher learning tools. Find detailed information about thousands of materials for K-12 math and science. Read articles about inquiry, equity, and other key topics for educators and parents. Create your learning plan, read the standards, and find tips for getting grants. July 4 Born on the fourth of July in 1883, Rube Goldberg became an engineer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist, a short-story writer, and a sculptor. But it is his cartoons featuring those mind-boggling inventions for which he is best remembered. The one entitled "Professor Butts' Automatic Garage Door Opener" (1928) shows a car bumper hitting a mallet that explodes a cap, which frightens a rabbit tied to a string that discharges a pistol that.... Well, you get the picture. In 18 simple steps, which involve both a sleeping dog and a tank of fish, the garage door opens! His absurd yet logical inventions were known as Rube Goldberg devices and reflected not only the humor he found in daily life, but also his unique view of the often-turbulent relationship between technology and humans. While many of Goldberg's inventions mocked the intrusion of machines into our lives, some, in their own special way, were the forerunners of real technology. The first mass-produced radio-controlled garage door opener was sold in 1954 and required no live animals!
TEACHING THE TECHNOLOGY STANDARDS The project includes goals, standards, and benchmarks for every grade level and rube goldberg machine. 1I, Corporations can often create demand for a http://www.boiseschools.org/schools/lesbois/teachers/johns/teaching_the_technolo
Extractions: Boise, Idaho In 1994 (the International Technology Educators Association) launched the Technology For All Americans project in order to improve student achievement in technology literacy. The project includes goals, standards, and benchmarks for every grade level and gives technology educators a path to follow when designing curriculum. The following table lists the benchmarks for technology classes and includes some suggested activities for each benchmark. If you are a technology teacher and you teach at least one activity per benchmark you can be assured that you are teaching to the standards. Many of the standards are very broad and are met with just about any technology activity while other activities are more specific. Although there are a lot of benchmarks to accomplish within one semester or school year, oftentimes one activity or project will meet quite a few benchmarks at once. Why does it matter? If you are not teaching to the standards you are not doing your job... Middle school standards are in BLUE and high school standards in RED T E C H N O L O G Y B E N C H M A R K S Standard 1 Students will develop an understanding of the characteristics and scope of technology.
ASEE PRISM - Apr 2002 - On Campus Students in the program must complete a research project, and micromouse is This year s rube goldberg Machine Contest challenges university teams to http://www.prism-magazine.org/april02/oncampus.cfm
Extractions: - By Erin Drenning and Allison Stack Mobile Homes Students from 14 colleges across the country will converge on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., this fall with houses in tow. University teams from Pittsburgh to Puerto Rico and everywhere in between will haul their sun-powered homes to the capital to compete in the U.S. Department of Energy's first Solar Decathlon in September. Solar Decathlon teams were chosen last March by the DOE, which celebrated April's Earth Day with a kickoff workshop for participants. The weeklong decathlon is open to the public to tour the students' designs. A Fish Tale Cyber Style Even if your antiquated computer keeps crashing, you may not have it dump it. Three Rowan University engineering grad students have put a unique spin on recycling monitors that is both creative and lucrative.
GEEN1400 - University Of Colorado At Boulder Advisor Bruce Sanders, CSCI, teaching CSCI 4308 CSCI 4318 Fall 2003 ProjectWinston Churchill A rube goldberg Contraption http://itll.colorado.edu/GEEN1400/index.cfm?fuseaction=PeoplesChoice
Rube Goldberg's A BMOC rube goldberg s a BMOC. Undergrad research wins backing They are real liveprojects at a college campus being tackled by, of all people, undergraduates. http://www.postgazette.com/localnews/20020509research4.asp
Extractions: September 25, 2005 News Sports Lifestyle Classifieds ... About Us Take me to... Search Local News Nation/World Sports Obituaries Lifestyle Business Opinion Photo Journal Weather Classifieds PG Store PG Delivery Web Extras Contact Us About Us Help Corrections Site Map Local News Latest News Previous Articles Neighborhoods ... Local News Rube Goldberg's a BMOC Undergrad research wins backing Thursday, May 09, 2002 By Bill Schackner, Post-Gazette Staff Writer Someday, there just may be a market out there for a collapsible sailboat that folds into a backpack. And perhaps everyone will want a car that obeys voice commands and even recommends restaurants. Carnegie Mellon University junior Ajay Juneja, 21, a mechanical engineering major, is working on a project, known as "Hey Mr. DJ.,'" which involves a natural language processing system enabling a driver to tell a stereo system which one of 150 different stored songs to play. (Bill Wade, Post-Gazette) No, these are not the wild rants of an inventor who's spent one too many nights locked in a lab. They are real live projects at a college campus being tackled by, of all people, undergraduates. The idea that research is the exclusive domain of lab-coated faculty and their graduate students doesn't square with a trend emerging in places like Carnegie Mellon University. There, undergraduates are being encouraged to engage in their own research, and the school kicks in hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant money to get them started.
Untitled Document The Computers in Process Control team project uses various concepts from computer science, and chemistry to construct a rube goldberg Machine. http://www.depts.drew.edu/govschl/GSS2003/team_pages/team8.htm
Summer 2002 Web Sites Mr. Pitonyak s Pyramid Puzzle ( 4 - 8 ) - students in this project are askedto estimate rube goldberg Machines - the official rube goldberg Web site. http://members.shaw.ca/dbrear/Summer2002websites.html
Extractions: Summer 2002 Web Sites The following Web sites looked interesting : From the newsletter, Classroom Connect Summer 2002 Classroom Today - here you will find Internet activities to do every day. Lesson Plan Goldmines NASA/MSU-Bozeman CERES Project Activities ( K-12 ) - a team of master teachers, university faculty, and NASA researchers have created a series of web-based astronomy and astrobiology lessons for the CERES, Center for Educational Resources, Project. Mr. Pitonyak's Pyramid Puzzle - ( 4 - 8 ) - students in this project are asked to estimate the cost of building a pyramid using modern materials and ancient methods. Web English Teacher ( K -12 ) presents the best of K-12 English/Language Arts teaching resources: lesson plans, WebQuests, videos, biography, e-texts, criticism, jokes, puzzles, and classroom activities. Topic : Simple Machines - this site is a companion to the museum's school program on simple machines. Rube Goldberg Machines - the official Rube Goldberg Web site. Simple Machines Construction Site - this site provides an interactive and highly animated series of Web pages on all six simple machines. Gander Academy Simple Machines - extensive list of online Simple Machine resources Simple Machines - Online Activities for Elementary Students Activity 1 - Understanding Simple Macines Scholastic: Simple Machines - learn about the six types of simple machines Inquiry Almanack: Simple Machines - Simple machines are simple tools used to make work easier.
