TY - JOUR
T1 - The Windwalker Project
T2 - An Open-Ended Approach
AU - Leszczynski, Eliza
AU - Monahan, Ceire
AU - Munakata, Mika
AU - Vaidya, Ashuwin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 National Science Teaching Association.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Students in a beginning level undergraduate classical mechanics course engaged in collaborative inquiry through the Windwalker Project. The aim of this project was for students to create a free-standing movable structure as a way of testing and applying their understanding of the conceptual and theoretical elements of the course. This article reports on the impact of this project-based learning environment on the students’ understanding of physics and describes the instructor’s actions that supported their progress. Students described the benefits and challenges of this learning environment as they related to their experiences with uncertainty, efforts to overcome obstacles through collaboration, and understanding of scientific research. The instructor was able to facilitate the groups’ work while supporting them with instruction on the underlying physics principles.
AB - Students in a beginning level undergraduate classical mechanics course engaged in collaborative inquiry through the Windwalker Project. The aim of this project was for students to create a free-standing movable structure as a way of testing and applying their understanding of the conceptual and theoretical elements of the course. This article reports on the impact of this project-based learning environment on the students’ understanding of physics and describes the instructor’s actions that supported their progress. Students described the benefits and challenges of this learning environment as they related to their experiences with uncertainty, efforts to overcome obstacles through collaboration, and understanding of scientific research. The instructor was able to facilitate the groups’ work while supporting them with instruction on the underlying physics principles.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85169336105&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2505/4/jcst17_046_06_27
DO - 10.2505/4/jcst17_046_06_27
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85169336105
SN - 1943-4898
VL - 46
SP - 27
EP - 33
JO - Journal of College Science Teaching
JF - Journal of College Science Teaching
IS - 6
ER -