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Michalek, Anne M. P.; Phalen, Lisa; Bobzien, Jonna L.; Chen, Chung-Hao; Urbano, Maria; Hartmann, Kathrin; Okwara, Leonore; Gorrepati, Purnima; Deutsch, Stephen; Williams, Takeshia – Preventing School Failure, 2020
Social communication deficits associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder are often exacerbated during adolescence. Group based approaches are effective intervention techniques for facilitating improved social communication skills in people with ASD; however, science, technology, engineering, and math activities, while highly preferred areas of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Adolescents, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Cuperman, Dan; Verner, Igor M. – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2013
This paper considers an approach to studying issues in technology and science, which integrates design and inquiry activities towards creating and exploring technological models of scientific phenomena. We implemented this approach in a context where the learner inquires into a biological phenomenon and develops its representation in the form of a…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Robotics, Middle School Students, Preservice Teachers
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Mitnik, Ruben; Recabarren, Matias; Nussbaum, Miguel; Soto, Alvaro – Computers & Education, 2009
Graphing is a key skill in the study of Physics. Drawing and interpreting graphs play a key role in the understanding of science, while the lack of these has proved to be a handicap and a limiting factor in the learning of scientific concepts. It has been observed that despite the amount of previous graph-working experience, students of all ages…
Descriptors: Graphs, Physics, Scientific Concepts, Robotics