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Keywords: Model Building

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Farming in Ancient Mesopotamia: An Ancient Civil Engineering Problem

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Type: Library or Collection
Subject: Science and Technology
Collection: The Tech Museum of Innovation Design Challenges
Grade Level: Primary

Abstract: In this integrated, multi-day Design Challenge unit, students will explore simple machines, transportation of materials, and river systems using stream tables. They will discover the problems ancient farmers faced and design their own working models that will attempt to solve those unique problems (includes ... More »

Modeling Issues in Speech and Hearing, Spring 2006

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Type: Course Related Materials
Subject: Science and Technology
Collection: MIT OpenCourseWare
Grade Level: Post-secondary

Abstract: Explores the theory and practice of scientific modeling in the context of auditory and speech biophysics. Based principally on seminar-style discussions of the research literature, subject draws on examples from hearing and speech (e.g., cochlear and vocal-fold mechanics) to explore general, meta-theoretical ... More »