Teaching Engineering and Science Using the Toilet: The Dissect
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چکیده
In order to improve science education in the formative grammar school years, we combined the principles of constructivist teaching with the natural curiosity of the students in an engineering-based curriculum. This curriculum allows the students to take apart and discover for themselves how various objects work. By capitalizing on the natural curiosity of the students, and by emphasizing group, hands-on engineering, we tried to make science do a better job of bridging the gender and social barriers. At the end of the we had students “discovering” concepts ranging from levers and forces to pressure and suction.
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