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- Title
Save the Boulders Beach Penguins.
- Authors
Sheerer, Katherine; Schnittka, Christine
- Abstract
The article discusses the incorporation of engineering design into science education, with particular focus given to an interdisciplinary project in which elementary school students were asked to design bird shelters as part of a unit on penguins. The project, which was designed to help students understand the concept of insulating materials, is described and the emphasis on engineering in science teaching standards is discussed.
- Subjects
SCIENCE education (Elementary); PENGUINS; SCIENCE education -- Standards; ENGINEERING design education in elementary schools; INTERDISCIPLINARY education; EDUCATION
- Publication
Science & Children, 2012, Vol 49, Issue 7, p50
- ISSN
0036-8148
- Publication type
Article