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ERIC Number: EJ552986
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0036-8148
Tools for Success.
McShane, Joan Braunagel
Science and Children, v35 n2 p32-33 Oct 1997
Reports on the winning tool creations by 1,300 fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade students in the 1997 Craftsman/NSTA Young Inventors Awards Program. Students had to use mechanical and science process skills to design and build tools to meet their needs in solving a problem. The winning entry was a calibrated angle and depth scissors. (AIM)
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Discovery Processes, Elementary Education, Inventions, Mechanical Skills, Problem Solving, Productive Thinking, Science Education, Science Process Skills
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - General
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Inventors; Tools