Pushing and Pulling

Don't worry...the kids are still behaving, no pushing or pulling of students 🤣...

The pushing and pulling that I speak of is the science kind, that of FORCES.

We spent some time looking at how objects move and how objects are affected by forces...frictional & gravitational. We talked about Newton's law, and we had some...FUN!

We first investigated with some forces of our own, our breath. We had to predict and calculate how far we could puff objects.

In our STEM curriculum, we study the concept of objects and motion with some learning stations. The students are given some objects and some general guidelines. 

In the first station, they had cars and ramps. They had to see what would happen if you raised the ramp up higher or lower.

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In our second station, they used a pull back car to measure the longest distance they could get.

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In the third station, they used a marble
​and a series of ramps to measure distance.

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In the fourth station, they used a ping pong ball and a golf ball to move a box. They saw that higher mass equals higher force.

In the fifth station, they used some pendulums of varied length to see how mass affects force.

In the last station, they had to use washers to get a balanced force on the top of a ruler.

STEM science is such a great way for students to have that hands on learning! They understand the concepts well and can apply them. Awesome!