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Sixth-graders encouraged to become Rubes



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VideoCNN's Jeanne Moos looks at some sixth-graders' Rube Goldberg contraptions.
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February 9, 2000
Web posted at: 12:50 a.m. EST (0550 GMT)

NEW YORK (CNN) -- In an effort to infect kids with the fun of physics, a teacher encouraged his sixth-grade class to follow in the path of Rube Goldberg.

The late cartoonist drew complicated, whimsical machines that carried out the simplest tasks.

Watch this report to see what machines the kids created and how well they worked.



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