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Balmer, Denise – School Science Review, 2014
The article describes an innovative project for year 9 (age 13-14) students that has run since 2002 with the help of professional engineers and scientists and incorporates careers information and hands-on practical work. The programme was developed to highlight alternative energy as a subject and also to provide a hands-on practical day for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Science, Science Course Improvement Projects, Science Activities
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Shyr, Wen-Jye – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2010
This paper presents a wind power system laboratory activity and an outline for evaluating student performance in this activity. The work described here was to design and implement the laboratory to assist teachers in achieving the teaching objective of this activity. The laboratory teaching activities introduce energy sources, wind energy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Activities, Energy, Power Technology
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Kolsto, Stein Dankert – International Journal of Science Education, 2006
This paper reports a qualitative study on students' informal reasoning on a controversial socio-scientific issue. Twenty-two students from four science classes in Norway were interviewed about the local construction of new power lines and the possible increased risk of childhood leukaemia. The focus in the study is on what arguments the students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Reaction, Decision Making, Power Technology