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Bring creativity, logic, and engineering together with this Rube Goldberg Project-Based Learning Challenge for grades 4–6!
Students will dive into the fascinating world of Rube Goldberg, an inventor and cartoonist famous for his comically complicated machines that perform simple tasks.
This engaging 2+ hour activity encourages students to think outside the box, analyze inventions, and design their own Rube Goldberg machine inside a head.
Perfect for independent work, whole-class learning, centers, early finishers, or sub plans.
What’s Included:
✔ Teacher Notes & Answer Keys
✔ Suggested YouTube Videos for Inspiration
✔ Rube Goldberg Biography & Quiz
✔ Word Search & Interactive Invention Game
✔ Famous Failures Activity (inventions by accident)
✔ Depth & Complexity Question Prompts
✔ Rube Goldberg Creative Challenge (design project)
Student Outcomes:
- KNOW: Define inventor and idea; read a Rube Goldberg biography
- UNDERSTAND: Learn from Famous Failures
- APPLY: Play invention games and complete a word search
- COMPREHEND: Respond to comprehension questions
- CREATE: Design a Rube Machine Inside Your Head
- ANALYZE: Tackle higher-level Depth and Complexity Questions
Easy Prep — Materials Needed:
• Printouts • Pencils • Scissors • Glue • Tape or Labels • 12x9 Construction Paper
(Optional: YouTube access, What Do You Do With an Idea? by Kobi Yamada)
✨ Inspire your students to invent, create, and think critically with this unforgettable Rube Goldberg design experience!
Check out the DIGITAL Version which includes INTERACTIVE Slides so you can go 100% paperless... fun for DISTANCE LEARNING!
RUBE GOLDBERG - Digital for Google Slide
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STEAM Studies: Fibonacci | Wright | Goldberg
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Description
Bring creativity, logic, and engineering together with this Rube Goldberg Project-Based Learning Challenge for grades 4–6!
Students will dive into the fascinating world of Rube Goldberg, an inventor and cartoonist famous for his comically complicated machines that perform simple tasks.
This engaging 2+ hour activity encourages students to think outside the box, analyze inventions, and design their own Rube Goldberg machine inside a head.
Perfect for independent work, whole-class learning, centers, early finishers, or sub plans.
What’s Included:
✔ Teacher Notes & Answer Keys
✔ Suggested YouTube Videos for Inspiration
✔ Rube Goldberg Biography & Quiz
✔ Word Search & Interactive Invention Game
✔ Famous Failures Activity (inventions by accident)
✔ Depth & Complexity Question Prompts
✔ Rube Goldberg Creative Challenge (design project)
Student Outcomes:
- KNOW: Define inventor and idea; read a Rube Goldberg biography
- UNDERSTAND: Learn from Famous Failures
- APPLY: Play invention games and complete a word search
- COMPREHEND: Respond to comprehension questions
- CREATE: Design a Rube Machine Inside Your Head
- ANALYZE: Tackle higher-level Depth and Complexity Questions
Easy Prep — Materials Needed:
• Printouts • Pencils • Scissors • Glue • Tape or Labels • 12x9 Construction Paper
(Optional: YouTube access, What Do You Do With an Idea? by Kobi Yamada)
✨ Inspire your students to invent, create, and think critically with this unforgettable Rube Goldberg design experience!
Check out the DIGITAL Version which includes INTERACTIVE Slides so you can go 100% paperless... fun for DISTANCE LEARNING!
RUBE GOLDBERG - Digital for Google Slide
Looking for MORE BIOGRAPHICAL Activities? Check These Out:
or...Here’s a Money-Saving Creative Thinker Bundle!
STEAM Studies: Fibonacci | Wright | Goldberg
(Check out the PREVIEWS, older or slightly younger students may enjoy this activity as well!)
Looking for specific GIFTED and TALENTED ACTIVITIES? Click the link below
Gifted and Talented Activities for the Classroom
Do your students love MYSTERIES? Have you seen GATER Educator's top-selling C.S.I. for Kids Activities? Check them out by clicking the following link...
Crime Scene Investigations by GATER Educator
Looking for more ESCAPE ROOM Activities? Click the link below
Love FUN FRIDAYS? Check out these themey activities for each month!
Don't forget that leaving feedback earns you points toward FREE TPT purchases. I love feedback!
TPT teacher authors appreciate you taking time out to provide some detail about how you like or how you used their products.
Need HELP with a file?
•Visit the FAQs section, submit a help ticket, or ask a question on the Q&A tab before leaving feedback.
**Making sure your expectations are met is important to me!**
Also, follow me and be notified when new products are uploaded. New products are always 50% off for the first 24 hours they are posted. It pays to follow me!
As always, please contact me with any questions!
Thank you so much,
Kris Prince
Follow me at:
My TpT Store: GATER Educator
Instagram: GATER Educator
Facebook: GATER Educator
©GATER Educator. All rights reserved
- Rube Goldberg
- Rube Goldberg activity
- Rube Goldberg project
- Rube Goldberg lesson
- Rube Goldberg design challenge
- Rube Goldberg machines
- Rube Goldberg worksheets
- Engineering design challenge
- Engineering project based learning
- STEM challenge
- STEM activity upper elementary
- STEM enrichment activity
- Critical thinking activity
- Higher level thinking activity
- Project based learning grades 4–6
- Creative thinking activity
- Inventors lesson plan
- Famous failures inventions
- Simple machines activity
- Invention project for kids
- Independent work activity
- Sub plan enrichment
- Early finishers STEM
- Distance learning STEM
- Google Slides STEM activity
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Thank you so much for the kind feedback! I loved using this project in my own classroom too. The Rube Goldberg designs made such great bulletin board displays, some of them even ended up featured in our main office!
I'm so glad your students enjoyed it as much as mine did.
Thanks for your support! I appreciate it! Kris
