An examination of early elementary students' approaches to engineering

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 6045-6054

  Kahn, Jason Michal ^a   Bers, Marina Umaschi ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CURRICULA; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; ROBOTICS; SENSORS;

ENGINEERING MATERIALS; ENGINEERING PROCESSES; LEGO MOTORS; TOUCH SENSORS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 22544474992     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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