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Hands-On Courses Highlight STEM
on April 28, 2009
Rather than sitting in class and listening to history and science lectures, students at New Tech High School will get to learn by doing "real-world, interactive projects that incorporate a variety of subjects at once," according to the Abilene Reporter-News.
Only 100 lucky freshmen, chosen by lottery, will get the chance to start at the magnet campus in Abilene, Texas this fall. The school's six teachers have been developing hands-on "project learning" style curriculum that focuses on math, science and engineering technology.
For instance, students might create an eco-friendly miniature golf course, where they would research the history of golf and use engineering and physics skills to design slopes, holes, waterfalls and windmills.
Students might prepare of production of Romeo and Juliet and build a traveling stage to study the European culture of the 1600s.
Or they might build a robot. Each student also gets a laptop. Every year the school plans to accept 100 more freshmen.
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