▲ With TeacherGeek, kids design and build their own crazy contraptions and mechanisms inspired by simple machines and Rube Goldberg machines using real tools
▲ Features FREE document resources - build guides, labs and engineering + design challenges to inspire competitive innovation
▲ Compatible with recycling bin components, 3-D printables, arts + crafts elements or additional materials for endless solutions
▲ Encourages creativity, critical thinking, problem solving - empowers kids to become engineers, inventors or artists
Need to crack an egg for breakfast without leaving your bed? Try TeacherGeek's "Crazy Contraptions", the thought-provoking, whacky activity inspired by Rube Goldberg's machine cartoons. This is NOT your parent's STEM activity. Kids start with the comprehensive build guide as an introduction to simple and complex machines, enabling them to construct exciting, clever mechanisms that complete tasks such as kicking a ball or raising a flag. By combining research and the design & engineering process, they can lift a basket with levers and dominoes or scratch a friend's back with gears and pulleys - the innovation never ends! Build it once, tinker forever. Each Crazy Contraption requires a 12"x 12" wood base with drilled holes - purchase a base from TeacherGeek or make the base yourself with a free template download.