 Field Trip Fridays -
Gadget Works:
Forces and Motion
Field Trip Fridays is to
ensure that every elementary
student in Macomb
County participate in at
least one virtual fieldtrip
before they move on to
middle school. The
grade level for this program
is 3rd, 4th, or 5th grades.
The new
program includes pre-visit
activities on gravity and
air resistance, speed, and
everyone’s favorite Happy
Crab Hypothesis Sheet. Only
now the hypothesis is about
what forces make the crab
move instead of what simple
machines are inside. The
show itself is now about
balanced and unbalanced
forces, pushes and pulls,
and tracing the energy flow
through the toys (the
chattering teeth still make
an appearance about halfway
through the show).
Post-visit activities
include: imaginatively
designing a wind-up toy to
make a specific movement,
such as running or hopping,
re-designing Professor
Gadgeteer’s toys to make
them move farther or faster,
moving a toy car without
touching it, and determining
just how much force the
Happy Crab generates when it
moves on various surfaces.
The schedule for the 2011 /
2012 school year
What
does
"COSI" mean?
The word COSI stands for
"Center
Of
Science and
Industry". COSI is
all about mind-blowing fun
providing opportunities to
play, explore, discover, and
learn together.
To visit the COSI website follow this link:
COSI Columbus
COSI Forces & Motion Teacher
Guide for grades 2 - 6
(You will need this for
the distance learning
program with the MISD).
Program Curriculum for
Gadget Works "Force and
Motion"
COSI Forces & Motion
Brochure
To register for the Field
Trip Fridays go to
the
DL Registration page
Lesson
Plans:
The lesson plan
titled,
"Creating
My Own Rube Goldberg Machine"
(PDF File)
has students taking apart
discarded appliances to
discover how the simple machines
make them tick. It also
incorporates a fun project
that has students designing
a Rube Goldberg machine of
their own.
(word format)
Physics: Force and Motion
Curriculum Resources from
eMINTS National Center
Websites:
What is force and motion
explained by the
Utah School District
Concepts and
principles of forces and
motion from
Cislunar Aerospace, Inc.
Amazing Rube Goldberg and
the Invention Convention:
Many interesting facts about
his life and his creative
cartoons
Honda's
Rube
Goldberg
Machine Experience
Rube
Goldberg
Machine
and
Honda
Award
Winning Ad
By Matthew
Wright, About.com
Guide
Finally, a proper presentation of auto parts in all their beauty! It's
not too
often that
auto parts
look this
good, but
this
2-minute
Honda ad
highlighting
the famous
Rube
Goldberg's
hilarious
concepts
does the
job. The
Rube
Goldberg
machine is
legendary as
Goldberg's
inventions
go.
If you've
never seen
"Cog," it's
a 2-minute
commercial
following
the progress
of a real
Rube
Goldberg
contraption.
It was
created in
April of
2003. The
short video
took more
than 600
takes before
every little
step of the
machine
worked
perfectly.
True Rube
Goldberg
followers
would never
edit a video
to fake a
perfectly
functioning
machine.
What are you
waiting for?
Check out
the
Honda Rube
Goldberg
Commercial
now at
http://autorepair.about.com/library/multimedia/hhonda-ad-300k.swf
Newspaper
article from
The
Guardian
"Did
they really
make that
Honda advert
in on take?"
Newspaper
article
The
Telegraph
"Lights!
Camera!
Retake!"
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