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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Enhancing Children's Drawing in Design Technology Planning and Making
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MacDonald, Dougal; Gustafson, Brenda J.; Gentilini, Shannon – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2007
This research project involved viewing elementary children's (ages 8-10) design technology drawing through a theoretical perspective developed by analyzing professional drawing practice. The perspective places more emphasis on the generative aspect of drawing as well as on the use of different types of drawings at different stages of design. The…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Elementary Education, Grade 3, Grade 4
Children's Ideas about Strengthening Structures.
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Gustafson, Brenda J.; Rowell, Patricia M.; Rose, Dawn P. – Research in Science and Technological Education, 2001
Focuses on 181 school children's (aged 5-13) responses to an Awareness of Technology Survey question intended to explore their conceptual knowledge of structural strength. Explores how the framework of the program and professional development opportunities did not help teachers implement the program. (Contains 13 references.) (Author/YDS)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Perception
Engineers in Elementary Classrooms: Perceptions of Learning To Solve Technological Problems.
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Rowell, Patricia M.; Gustafson, Brenda J.; Guilbert, Sandra M. – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1999
Explores the perceptions held by practicing engineers of what is involved in learning to solve technological problems and examines their pedagogical approaches to technological problem-solving in elementary-classroom contexts. Concludes that recognition of the nature of each occupation is needed to realize a potential of collaboration between…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Engineering Education, Engineers
Elementary Children's Technological Problem Solving: Selecting an Initial Course of Action.
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Gustafson, Brenda J.; Rowell, Patricia M. – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1998
Focuses on the responses of elementary school children (N=336) to an "Awareness of Technology Survey" question intended to explore how they would begin the technological problem-solving process. Contains 29 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries