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Investigating Crickets: Jumping across the Disciplines in a Naturally Interdisciplinary Project
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McComas, Kim Krusen – Gifted Child Today, 2022
A phenomenon from the natural world, cricket chirping behavior in relation to ambient temperature, is used as the springboard for engaging the curiosity of gifted students in an interdisciplinary classroom curriculum. Mathematics and science standards and disciplinary practices are prominent in the investigation, while other disciplines deepen the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Gifted Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Natural Resources
High School Teachers Efforts to Enhance Students' Acquisitions of STEM Skills: A Qualitative Study
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Olufade, Ayo Elijah – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The problem addressed in this study was high school science teachers' lack of understanding of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and clarity for the integration of Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) approaches to align standards in STEM with high school science education. The purpose of this qualitative case study was…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, High Schools, STEM Education, Skill Development
New Curriculum towards Big Ideas in Science Education
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Thuneberg, Helena; Salmi, Hannu; Vainikainen, Mari-Pauliina; Hienonen, Ninja; Hautamäki, Jarkko – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2022
This study responds to the demands of the rapidly changing landscape of education, the 21st century competencies and development of curriculum. Those competences are being interpreted all over the world resulting to differing curricular changes. In the Finnish National Core Curriculum 2016 they are presented as seven transversal competences that…
Descriptors: Science Curriculum, Science Education, Scientific Concepts, National Curriculum