Stevens 4th graders took their seatwork to the floor this week for a high-energy, hands-on physics challenge. After learning from Mrs. Durrant the principles of potential energy, height energy, and energy transfer, it was time to put that theory into practice.
The mission? Create a functional chain reaction using anything they could get their hands on. By strategically “picking and pulling” from a library of materials—including cups, paper, dominoes, bottles, and stackable objects—students engineered creative solutions to transfer energy from one point to the next. Whether they were calculating the perfect height for a gravity-fed drop or aligning a row of dominoes, these young scientists showed a masterful understanding of how energy moves through the world around them.
