
How to Turn STEM Failures into Learning Opportunities!
Let’s take a look at some not-so-great moments, my failure moments! This humorous look at our STEM lab is all about failures (that might have taught us a thing or two)! Based on my mistakes I have created STEM Challenges that do work! Those suggestions are also included in this post. By the way, I love using hyperbole, so watch for that, too! Newton’s Laws Okay, well the idea here was to have the kids test Newton’s Laws of Motion- one of which says (paraphrasing here) that the more force applied the more distance an object will travel. So, how to apply a force to a little car? Hmmm, just having the kids push lightly, medium, and hard seemed out of the question as I could just imagine them throwing cars across the room. So, the car whackers were born. It only took me about a minute and a half to know this was a bad idea. The kids were




