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A Concrete Proposal to Introduce Control Theory to 16 Year Old Pupils
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Goovaerts, Leen; De Cock, Mieke; Struyven, Katrien; Dehaene, Wim – European Journal of STEM Education, 2019
High level, abstract engineering thinking and design is a subject that is hardly addressed in current curricula for secondary education. This is contradictory to the increasing need for more in depth STEM education in secondary schools dictated by the evolution of our society towards an ever more STEM based information society. In this paper an…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Design, Thinking Skills, Secondary School Students
Developing a Module to Teach Thermodynamics in an Integrated Way to 16 Year Old Pupils
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Goovaerts, Leen; De Cock, Mieke; Struyven, Katrien; Dehaene, Wim – European Journal of STEM Education, 2019
In order to motivate secondary school pupils for STEM studies and professions, a teaching approach with a focus on integration of STEM components is developed. This paper focuses on the integration of physics and mathematics into an engineering design problem in K10 education, namely building and heating a model of a passive house with a sun…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Secondary School Students, Teaching Methods, Physics
"Hot Wheels" in the Laboratory.
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Wade, Bob – Physics Teacher, 1996
Presents experiments that use the Mattel's Hot Wheels Top Speed toy set to show that work is a measure of energy transferred to or from a system. (JRH)
Descriptors: Acceleration (Physics), Energy, Foreign Countries, Mechanics (Physics)