Creating Your Own Rube Goldberg Device Harding Middle School 7th Grade Ms. Kerr & Mrs. Thompson

Middle School Pathfinders Lakewood City Schools Lakewood Public Library

Rube Goldberg Web Site

Wikipedia - Rube Goldberg

Toonopedia: Rube Goldberg

Rube Goldberg Invention Convention

Energy Changes and How Things Happen - from FT Exploring

Making of a Great Machine - from University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Rube Goldberg Machine Contest

What makes a good Rube Goldberg machine? - from Argonne National Laboratory Rube Goldberg Machine Contest

Rube Goldberg Contest at Purdue - Background

Fear of Physics

How Things Work

Background Information on Energy

Simple Machines Pathfinder

Force and Friction Pathfinder

FOSSweb Levers and Pulleys Activity - Build a Rube Goldberg Machine (Shockwave)

YouTube (Pythagoras Switch) - A series of short videos from a Japanese TV show.

Honda car commercial

Books:

• Rube Goldberg vs. the machine age; a retrospective exhibition of his work with memoirs and annotations
  741.5973 428
• Engineering projects for young scientists by Peter H.Goodwin.
  J620.0078 428
• 101 physics tricks: fun experiments with everyday materials by Terry Cash.
  J530.078 CASH
• Science experiments with simple machines by Sally Nankivell-Aston
  J621.8078 NANKIVELL-ASTON
• Gear up!: marvelous machine projects by Keith Good
  J621.811 GOOD
• Simple machines by Fran Whittle
  J621.811 WHITTLE