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Niina Niinimäki; Kati Sormunen; Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen; Sini Davies; Kaiju Kangas – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2025
Background: Implementing maker education in schools is on the rise, fuelled by its potential to move formal education towards a creative, technology-driven 21st century learning culture. In maker education, collaborative learning takes place through and around various digital and traditional technologies, which provide the means for students'…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Experiential Learning, Technological Literacy, Student Projects
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Chang, Chu-Yang; Du, Zhengyi; Kuo, Hsu-Chan; Chang, Chih-Ching – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2023
Contribution: This study represents the first systematic attempt to develop Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) integrated project-based learning (PBL) as a transdisciplinary teaching method for fostering students' creativity and computational thinking (CT) skills. Background: With the growing importance of creativity…
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Grade 7, Design, Cognitive Processes
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Citrohn, Björn; Stolpe, Karin; Svensson, Maria; Bernhard, Jonte – Design and Technology Education, 2022
This study aims to investigate affordances of models and modelling in design projects in technology education. To learn more about affordances when working with models and modelling, four Swedish technology teachers were interviewed using a narrative approach. Despite a small number of informants data were rich, containing detailed descriptions of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Education, Design, Models
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Ferguson, Sarah; Johnston, Thomas; Karhan, Christopher; Lefevbre, Eric – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2021
Students explore the relationship between thrill-seeking rides and their algebra 1 curriculum in an informative, engaging, student-centered lesson that was designed using a project-based-instruction (PBI) framework.
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Student Centered Learning, Student Projects
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Adanir, Yasemin; Hacioglu, Yasemin – Journal of Inquiry Based Activities, 2021
This study aimed to present a project-based STEM activity titled "Let's Build a Mini Farm on Our Schoolyard." The activity was implemented in science and science applications courses during the 2018-2019 academic year with 28 seventh grade students attending a state school in Giresun/Turkey. At the beginning of the study, the students…
Descriptors: Student Projects, STEM Education, Grade 7, Foreign Countries
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Riikonen, Sini Maarit; Kangas, Kaiju; Kokko, Sirpa; Korhonen, Tiina; Hakkarainen, Kai; Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Pirita – Design and Technology Education, 2020
The purpose of the present investigation was to analyze the pedagogical infrastructures in three cycles of seventh graders' co-invention projects that involved using traditional and digital fabrication technologies for inventing and creating complex artefacts. The aim of the projects was to create high-end multi-material makerspaces by expanding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Shared Resources and Services
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Goldstein, Molly H.; Omar, Sharifah A.; Purzer, Senay; Adams, Robin S. – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2018
In schools, design projects can be implemented at a variety of ways and with varying degrees of resources from teachers and schools. However, little work has been done on the differences between student learning outcomes and the type of design projects. This study compares two design projects implemented in 7th grade classrooms (n=677) at two…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Middle School Students, Secondary School Science, Engineering Education
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Schnittka, Jessica; Schnittka, Christine – Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research, 2016
The 21st century has brought an increasing demand for expertise in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Although strides have been made towards increasing gender diversity in several of these disciplines, engineering remains primarily male dominated. In response, the U.S. educational system has attempted to make engineering…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Group Dynamics, Active Learning, Student Projects
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Baser, Derya; Ozden, M. Yasar; Karaarslan, Hasan – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2017
Background: Blending collaborative learning and project-based learning (PBL) based on Wolff (2003) design categories, students interacted in a learning environment where they developed their technology integration practices as well as their technological and collaborative skills. Purpose: The study aims to understand how seventh grade students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning, Active Learning, Student Projects
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Pantaleo, Sylvia – English in Education, 2015
Explicit pedagogy that focuses on visual design and composition principles can affect students' responses to and understanding, interpretation and analysis of images, as well as the creation of their own visual representations. This article considers the why, the what, and the how of teaching various visual elements of art and design to students…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Semiotics, Art Education, Design
Schneider, Twila, Ed. – National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 2010
This educator guide is organized into seven chapters: (1) Overview; (2) The Design Challenge; (3) Connections to National Curriculum Standards; (4) Preparing to Teach; (5) Classroom Sessions; (6) Opportunities for Extension; and (7) Teacher Resources. Chapter 1 provides information about Environmental Control and Life Support Systems used on NASA…
Descriptors: Glossaries, Web Sites, Technological Literacy, Space Sciences
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 2010
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center, Dryden Flight Research Center, and their partners at other NASA centers and in private industry are currently developing X-33, a prototype to test technologies for the next generation of space transportation. This single-stage-to-orbit reusable launch…
Descriptors: Space Sciences, Astronomy, Engineering, Worksheets
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 2007
This student employee handbook offers tips on planning, design process, and presentation of a student Lunar Nautics project. Each section includes mission, task, challenge, and guide questions. With the activities presented, students will learn to design a Lunar Lander, Lunar Miner, and Lunar Base; investigate the geography and geology of the moon…
Descriptors: Geology, Geography, Lunar Research, Hands on Science