Working our way through the Design Thinking LAUNCH Cycle to build Rube Goldberg Machines. L ook, Listen, and Learn: Read about the man and the machines. Watch many, many examples. A sk Questions: Ask and answer questions through the inquiry process U nderstand: Looking at our Rube Goldberg guidelines, requirements, and task. N avigate Ideas: Begin planning and designing our machines. C reate a Prototype: Begin constructing based on our ideas. H ighlight and Fix: Fix what is not working. Launch To The World! Rube Goldberg: A complicated a machine that completes a simple task. The photos below show my students in the Navigating stage of the LAUNCH Cycle. Each group plans a little differently. Some got right to work drawing and sketching ideas, others started listing step-by-step descriptions of what would happen in their machine, some simply talked things out and had nothing on their paper, o...
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