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Ward, Lauren; Lyden, Sarah; Fitzallen, Noleine – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2016
Context based learning (CBL) is a powerful tool that utilises areas of student interest framed in meaningful contexts to foster development of new skills and understanding. For middle school students, engineering activities that relate to real-world problems provide suitable CBL contexts for acquiring conceptual scientific and mathematical…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Engineering Technology, Middle School Students, Teaching Methods
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Suvannatsiri, Ratchasak; Santichaianant, Kitidech; Murphy, Elizabeth – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2015
This paper reports on a project in which students designed, constructed and tested a model of an existing early warning system with simulation of debris flow in a context of a landslide. Students also assessed rural community members' knowledge of this system and subsequently taught them to estimate the time needed for evacuation of the community…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Student Improvement, Emergency Programs