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.
