TY - JOUR
T1 - Teaching science through technology
T2 - A confluence of knowledge, design and construction
AU - Yu, Kuang Chao
AU - Lin, Kuen Yi
AU - Hung, Kuo Feng
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The relationship between students' technological performance and their use of science knowledge, design skills and construction skills in a technology project, is examined in this article. The study was conducted in a classroom of 33 seventh-graders as they undertook a 16-hour water rocket building project. Analysed data reveal that hands-on practice can be effective in integrating students' science knowledge, design skills and construction skills. This technological practice can provide a context for introducing science concepts and to demonstrate that science is relevant and socially important. Also, as the science concepts to be developed are explicit, their design and construction skills enable them to apply their science knowledge.
AB - The relationship between students' technological performance and their use of science knowledge, design skills and construction skills in a technology project, is examined in this article. The study was conducted in a classroom of 33 seventh-graders as they undertook a 16-hour water rocket building project. Analysed data reveal that hands-on practice can be effective in integrating students' science knowledge, design skills and construction skills. This technological practice can provide a context for introducing science concepts and to demonstrate that science is relevant and socially important. Also, as the science concepts to be developed are explicit, their design and construction skills enable them to apply their science knowledge.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84904066753
SN - 1446-2257
VL - 8
SP - 436
EP - 441
JO - World Transactions on Engineering and Technology Education
JF - World Transactions on Engineering and Technology Education
IS - 4
ER -