Marble Madness Start your school year with fun marble STEM projects.
BY ANN LEVELLE
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cience, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) will likely be high on your children’s curricula this year. Whether you have a child who embraces all things STEM or one who can’t stand any of it, you can create some really cool things at home to play with that use STEM concepts but don’t feel like educational endeavors. My girls and I took a rainy day recently to have some fun with marbles. One piece of 20- by 30inch foam board ($2 at Michaels) lent itself to making marble mazes and a Newton’s Cradle. We also bought a bag of marbles and a package of wooden dowels, totaling about $10. Everything else—straws, glue, Popsicle sticks, string, and rubber bands— we had at home.
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