Yearly at Casco Bay Excessive College in Portland, Maine, lecturers stage a mannequin automobile race because the culminating occasion for an built-in math and physics mission that helps college students hook up with content material in a hands-on manner. Groups of scholars design, check, and tinker with a number of automobile designs earlier than the massive day in an try to construct the quickest—and the slowest—mannequin vehicles. And on race day, an environment of competitors and celebration builds pleasure for his or her demonstrations of studying. Just one workforce wins, however everybody walks away with a greater grasp on higher-level STEM ideas.

To study extra in regards to the analysis behind the practices seen within the video, take a look at the hyperlinks under.

• The American Academy of Pediatrics’ report on how play enhances improvement in younger kids (2018) 
• Kayleigh Skene, Christine M. O’Farrelly, Elizabeth M. Byrne, Natalie Kirby, Eloise C. Stevens, and Paul G. Ramchandani’s meta-analysis and assessment on whether or not steerage throughout play can improve kids’s studying and improvement in academic contexts (2022) 
• Rachel Parker, Bo Stjerne Thomsen, and Amy Berry’s article on studying by play in school (2022)
• Rosangela Bando, Emma Näslund-Hadley and Paul Gertler’s research “Impact of Inquiry and Downside Based mostly Pedagogy on Studying: Proof from 10 Subject Experiments in 4 International locations” (2019)
• Lu Zhang and Yan Ma’s “A research on the influence of project-based studying on scholar studying results: a meta-analysis research” (2023)
• Cheng-Huan Chen and Yong-Cih Yang’s research “Revisiting the consequences of project-based studying on college students’ educational achievement: A meta-analysis investigating moderators” (2019)
• Linda Darling-Hammond, Lisa Flook, Channa Prepare dinner-Harvey, Brigid Barron and David Osher’s article “Implications for academic apply of the science of studying and improvement” (2019)
• Helena M. Thuneberg, Hannu S. Salmi and Franz X. Bogner’s analysis on the hyperlink between cognitive studying and hands-on inquiry in math (2018)