Whatever Floats Your Boat: A Design Challenge

Autor/inn/en	Kornoelje, Joanne; Roman, Harry T.
Titel	Whatever Floats Your Boat: A Design Challenge
Quelle	In: Tech Directions, 72 (2012) 1, S.22-23 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1062-9351
Schlagwörter	Design Requirements; Science Activities; Problem Based Learning; Science Process Skills; Technology Education; Construction (Process) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Design preferences; Gestaltungsmittel; Problem-based learning; Problemorientiertes Lernen; Technisch-naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Aufbau; Konstruktion
Abstract	This article presents a simple design challenge, based on the PBS program "Design Squad's" "Watercraft" activity that will prove engaging to most technology and engineering students. In this floating boat challenge, students are to build a boat that can float and support 25 pennies for at least 10 seconds--without leaking, sinking, or tipping over. Based on the enthusiasm that this challenge generated, the authors are planning to organize an after-school "inventors club" for interested students. They will start with brainstorming design challenges to stimulate outside-the-box thinking, then will progress so that interested students can take their raw ideas and learn how to transform them into plans, keep an inventor's notebook, and perhaps mock-up some prototypes. (Contains 6 photos.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10