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Shop Class; Tuesday, Fourth Period [04/16].
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special_rabbitHooo boy, was Amaya sure glad that the penultimate lesson in her shop class was almost always one that required a lot of set-up before hand! Not that she needed anything to keep her busy and occupied and not thinking about things like the sleeping bags in her living room or intricate armor pieces in her shop or glitter-covered magnifying glasses, of course. She just liked having a project and getting right to it and set it up as a means to an end, nothing to see here.
Well, actually, no, by the time class got started, there was a lot to see there, as Amaya had taken the time to put together several familiar contraptions all about the shop room, and pretty thrilled to get right into it.
"Now," she said, "we're almost done with the semester, and those of you who have taken this class before, and maybe even a few of my other ones, know what's coming up next: it's time to talk about your final projects for next week, and that means we're talking about Rube Goldberg machines.
"In a nutshell, a Rube Goldberg machine is a contraption designed to be overly complicated, using a variety of different simple machines and other devices, to do a simple task. They're named after a cartoonist who featured a lot of these in his work, and I've got a few of those recreated today, as well as some other ones, to help give you ideas on what you might like to create as your own Rube Goldberg machine.
"Today, then," she said, "is mostly brainstorming, getting some ideas, bouncing them off each other, and sort of fiddling around with this and that and seeing what might come out of it. You'll have free reign of the shop to start putting your projects together throughout the week, and the rest of today, but first, let me show you a few examples."
Well, actually, no, by the time class got started, there was a lot to see there, as Amaya had taken the time to put together several familiar contraptions all about the shop room, and pretty thrilled to get right into it.
"Now," she said, "we're almost done with the semester, and those of you who have taken this class before, and maybe even a few of my other ones, know what's coming up next: it's time to talk about your final projects for next week, and that means we're talking about Rube Goldberg machines.
"In a nutshell, a Rube Goldberg machine is a contraption designed to be overly complicated, using a variety of different simple machines and other devices, to do a simple task. They're named after a cartoonist who featured a lot of these in his work, and I've got a few of those recreated today, as well as some other ones, to help give you ideas on what you might like to create as your own Rube Goldberg machine.
"Today, then," she said, "is mostly brainstorming, getting some ideas, bouncing them off each other, and sort of fiddling around with this and that and seeing what might come out of it. You'll have free reign of the shop to start putting your projects together throughout the week, and the rest of today, but first, let me show you a few examples."
