Our Marlboro Elementary School Dukes are having fun in the STEM Lab this year!
Recently, after discussing the excitement of making discoveries through exploration and creativity, as well as the thrill of trying new things and being challenged, the students learned about the scientific method and Bernoulli's principle. The principle states that when air moves faster over the top of an airplane's wing, it creates lower pressure. The higher pressure under the wing pushes up, and this lift helps planes rise into the sky.
Next, during a hands-on experiment with STEM teacher Danielle Havlusch, the students got to see how air pressure affects a ping pong ball by creating a cone out of paper and attaching a straw to it. They then made observations about how some of the balls spun, some floated, and others did nothing. The students whose balls weren't moving had to find new ways to put their straws and cones together to create enough air pressure to move the ball.
To wrap things up, the young learners enjoyed analyzing their findings as a class.