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Wall Street Journal article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120536866436332077.html?mod=dist_smartbrief
Reading, Writing ...
And Engineering
By ANNE MARIE CHAKER
March 13, 2008; Page D1
In Room 10 at Odyssey Elementary School in Colorado Springs, Colo., teacher Erik Russell leads a class of 27 fourth-graders in a lesson not on reading or writing -- but engineering.
Chemical engineering, actually. As part of a unit on solids and liquids, the students are asked to gradually mix combinations of flour, water and salt -- marking down what happens as they go along -- to come up with an optimal play-dough consistency.
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