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Peer reviewedMcShane, Joan Braunagel – Science and Children, 1997
Reports on the winning tool creations by 1,300 fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade students in the 1997 Craftsman/NSTA Young Inventors Awards Program. Students had to use mechanical and science process skills to design and build tools to meet their needs in solving a problem. The winning entry was a calibrated angle and depth scissors. (AIM)
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Discovery Processes, Elementary Education, Inventions
Peer reviewedCramer, Nancy Stovall – Science and Children, 1976
Sixth graders find out the do-it-yourself way of learning pays off when they construct their own instruments in their study of simple machines. Three machines were constructed. (EB)
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Educational Media, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
