How does a planetary gear work? Why is a triangle the most stable shape in statics? And how do everyday mechanisms like a car’s windshield wiper or a scissor lift function? The STEM Mechanics learning kit provides answers to these and many more essential questions from the fields of mechanics and statics – clearly, practically, and with real-life relevance.Combining the content of four successful fischertechnik sets – STEM Simple Machines, STEM Gear Tech, STEM Statics, and Mechanics 2.0 – this comprehensive kit offers more than 30 hands-on model experiments. Students can explore and understand:
- Basic mechanical principles: levers, pulleys, inclined planes, gear ratios
- Various gear types: planetary gears, differential gears and shift gears
- Static structures: tensile and compressive forces, balance of forces, bridge design
- Real-world applications: kardan shafts, scissor lifts and more
- Direct force measurement using a self-built spring scale
With its hands-on, discovery-based approach, STEM Mechanics promotes not only technical knowledge, but also creativity, teamwork, and problem-solving skills. A freely accessible online companion provides background information, tasks, and teaching materials for both guided and independent learning.STEM Mechanics is the perfect tool for competence-based, curriculum-aligned STEM education – from lower to upper secondary levels, and especially suited for students interested in engineering, physics, or technical fields.
Content
Includes lever, cable winch, crank, universal joint, gear wheels, static elements, spring balance
