Learning by Doing
Vocabulary
The Port of Los Angeles
The Toyota Method for Problem Solving
Environment
100
Learning by doing is the motto of which California university?
What is Cal Poly Pomona?
100
It is the adjective of a triangle.
What is triangular?
100
It's the busiest container port in the United States.
What is Port of Los Angeles?
100
This Korean company uses the Toyota Method for Problem Solving.
Who is Hyundai?
100
This is the biggest engineering project in the world. Environmental groups worry about potential damage to Lake Nicaragua.
What is the Nicaragua Canal?
200
This pragmatic philosopher came up with the idea of Learning by Doing.
Who is John Dewey?
200
This saw is circular.
What is a circular saw?
200
It's one of the top exports at the Port of Los Angeles.
What is scrap paper?
200
In this step, you decide why it's a problem and determine the benefits to solving the problem. You go see the problem first hand.
What is Step 1? Clarify the problem!
200
This missile tracking ship was sunken off the coast of Florida to create an artificial reef.
What is the General Hoyt S. Vandenberg?
300
The Toyota Method for Problem Solving built upon learning-by-doing.
What is Kaizen?
300
It is the amount of space that a substance or object occupies, or that is enclosed within a container, especially when great.
What is volume?
300
They travel by ship, trains, and trucks.
What are containers?
300
In this step, you identify causes and effects of the root problem.
What is Step 4? Analyze the Root Cause!
300
These are specially designed beehive-like modules to create artificial reefs. They are especially popular in Korea.
What are reef balls?
400
This is another term for Learning by Doing.
What is Experiential Learning?
400
It is the occupation by a submerged body or part of a body of a volume that would otherwise be occupied by a fluid.
What is displacement?
400
There are over 1 million in California and 3 million the United States.
What are jobs related to the Port of Los Angeles?
400
This is the step you troubleshoot your problem over and over and you ask many questions in order to remove any root causes. Finally, you must narrow down the most practical and effective based on your target.
What is Step 6? Implement Countermeasures
400
This Chinese project is estimated to cost $40 Billion. It will be 90 feet deep and 173 miles long.
What was the Nicaragua Canal?
500
It is a concept within economic theory by which productivity is achieved through practice, self-perfection and minor innovations. An example is a factory that increases output by learning how to use equipment better without adding workers or investing significant amounts of capital. Learning refers to understanding through thinking ahead and solving backward, one of the main problem solving strategies.
What is Learning by doing?
500
This is based on a constructivist theory of teaching and learning. Learning takes place when teachers are able to present information in a way that students are able to construct meaning based on their own experiences. These learning experiences study abroad programs, among others.
What is contextual learning?
500
This man-made island is made out dirt dredged from the bottom of the ocean.
What is Pier 400?
500
In this step, you reflect on what you've learned.
What is Step 8? Standardize and Share Success
500
This project in the 1970's became an environmental problem when 2 million tires were put in the ocean off the coast of Florida to create an artificial reef; however, the vulcanized rubber destroyed fragile organisms and tires washed up on the beach.
What is the Osborne Tire Reef?
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