Not going anywhere for spring break this year? Keep your children’s minds active with a STEM project. Kids can turn your kitchen into an applied physics lab from the moment they purposely toss that first bit of food from their high chair trays. This STEM activity, the Fridge Fun Marble Run, is a lot less mess and a ton more fun. As you watch a marble turn potential (stored) energy, into kinetic energy (energy in motion) on its way down the run, you can also see the gears in your child’s mind turning as they engineer exciting paths to get the marble to reach the cup at the bottom of the run.
7 Simple Machine Projects For Students To Try
Before the age of power tools and complex machinery, simple machines were used to make work easier and move heavy objects from one location to another. Using leverage, these simple machines can multiply force with few, if any, moving parts. Simple machines are a great way of introducing children of all ages to fundamental engineering …