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Direct linkBarton, Richard – Tech Directions, 2012
"If you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door," Ralph Waldo Emerson is often credited with saying. In today's world, that might more likely be "if you build a better cell phone..." or maybe "a better vehicle..." But as an 8th-grade design project, the author challenges his students to build that better mousetrap. In…
Descriptors: Design, Middle School Students, Equipment, Technology Education
