JoinThe Windwalker Project: An Open-Ended Approach
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.