Help me give my students the experience of learning about hydraulics in our new S.T.E.M. Lab class.
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All students have natural curiosity and creativity and my students are no different. They are often full of questions and we, as educators, are responsible for doing our best to answer these questions or at least to given them the tools they need to arrive to their own answers. Students learn in different ways, but from the beginning of my teaching career, I quickly came to realize that students absolutely love hands-on, inquiry based projects, which provide challenges that allow them to express their creativity and learning style. Students come to school everyday looking for a chance to grow both, personally and academically and this is one of the reasons I love teaching.
As an educator, I truly believe that all students can learn as long as they are willing to try.
Unfortunately, our school has a large number of low income students. They face home challenges or situations that are less than ideal and that make school the last thing on their minds. Yet, most of them come to school looking for a way to escape their reality, and it is my job to help them find that escape by providing a meaningful learning environment.
My Project
S.T.E.M. is one of the big learning ideas that is currently sweeping the nation in education. These materials will help my S.T.E.M. Lab students learn about hydraulics. The word “hydraulics” generally refers to power produced by moving liquids. Modern hydraulics is defined as the use of confined liquid to transmit power, multiply force, or produce motion.
French philosopher, Blaise Pascal discovered that liquids cannot be compressed.
He discovered a law which states that pressure applied to any part of an enclosed liquid will be transmitted equally in all directions throughout the liquid. This particular topic can be a very difficult idea to understand; the use of these materials should help give students a visual representation of this idea.
In addition, by exploring this idea in collaborating teams, this project will also allow students to work together in order to come up with solutions to future engineering problems.
More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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