We were given a task to build a Rube Goldberg machine that incorporates a steam punk element and has a lot of metaphors for the revolution that we had chosen. First we started with research on the revolution that we chose. My team researched the American Revolution. We started off by doing a lot of research on what happened, why it happened and the factors that led to the revolution occurring. Here is a website that explains the American Revolution. Here is a picture of the time line we made of the american revolution.

I thought that my group shared the workload well.  We shared how much each person worked on each part of the machine. By the time we had to create the movie, my primary job was to get all the voices and edit the movie and make sure it met all of the requirements. I also had to make sure that it all made sense and that there was nothing that was not suppose to be there. We had a lot of challenges when making this project. Some examples are trying to get pipe cut to put a marble through it and trying to make an elevator for marbles.

Here is a short movie of all the work we did on the Metaphor Machine.

In this project I learned a lot about the American Revolution and how it shaped who America is today.  I also learned about metaphors and how they can be a symbol  for a place, idea, event or person such as putting the teapot on the machine representing the Boston Tea Party. I also gained more knowledge about working in a group.

Here is the final metaphor Machine video

https://youtu.be/YqWzKFaz8Xs