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Dankenbring, Chelsey; Capobianco, Brenda M.; Eichinger, David – Science and Children, 2014
In this article, the authors provide an overview of engineering and the engineering design process, and describe the steps they took to develop a fifth grade-level, standards-based engineering design task titled "Getting the Dirt on Decomposition." Their main goal was to focus more on modeling the discrete steps they took to create and…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Design, Curriculum Design, Task Analysis
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Lai, Chih-Hung; Chen, Fei-Ching; Yang, Jie-Chi – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2014
The purpose of this study was to analyze how mobile technologies were incorporated and implemented in an outdoor learning activity. Two classes of primary school students participated in the experiment. Using activity theory as an analytical framework, it is found that underlying tensions provided rich insights into system dynamics and that…
Descriptors: Conflict, Handheld Devices, Electronic Learning, Field Trips