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Direct linkVeith, Sonja Isabel – Research in Science Education, 2023
Sound is a very omnipresent physical phenomenon that plays a crucial role in our daily lives. It is essential for verbal communication and helps us orient ourselves. Children are especially affected by sound and its presence in their daily lives. This circumstance, and the subject-specific interesting facets of the topic of sound, make this…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Acoustics, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Kason Ka Ching Cheung; Jack Pun; Wangyin Kenneth-Li; Jiayi Mai – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2025
As students read scientific texts created in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools, they need to draw on their epistemic knowledge of GenAI as well as that of science. However, only a few research discussed multimodality as a methodological approach in characterising students' ideas of GenAI-science epistemic reading. This study…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Reading Processes, Concept Formation, Science Education
Download full textEmre Savas; Aysel Kocakulah – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2025
This study aims to investigate the effect of the teaching model developed for hot conceptual change on middle school 7th-grade students' understanding of the Nature of Science (NOS) aspects. In this qualitative and exploratory study, activities were carried out with 24 students of two classes in a village school in the South Marmara region using a…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Grade 7
Gow, Ellen; Kruse, Jerrid; Wees, Susan; Dee, Kristy; Hernandez, Leslie – Science and Children, 2023
As an introduction to sound and vibration, the authors wanted their first-grade students to plan and conduct their own investigations. In this article, the authors share a series of investigations to help students explore the relationship between sound and vibration. By planning, creating, testing, adapting, and reflecting on the outcomes of the…
Descriptors: Science Education, Acoustics, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
Wilcox, Jesse; Reiter, Reade; Rose, Abby; Alberts, Alex; Murano, Katie – Science and Children, 2022
Although the "Next Generation Science Standards" (NGSS) have three dimensions, the crosscutting concepts are often the forgotten dimension. One reason teachers may not emphasize the crosscutting concepts might be because they are broad, domain-general constructs that can be difficult to conceptualize in a meaningful way. Yet, when taught…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Principles, Teaching Methods, Inquiry
Kruse, Jerrid; Kent-Schneider, Isaiah; Voss, Sarah; Zacharski, Kinsey; Rockefeller, Molly – Science & Education, 2021
The study seeks to explore the extent to which students think pedagogical activities exemplifying various degrees of contextualization accurately reflect the work of scientists. Arguing for scaffolding across multiple degrees of contextualization, Clough (2006) reasoned that different contextualization plays different, but complimentary, roles in…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Scientific Principles, Science Activities, Authentic Learning
Mesci, Günkut; Erdas-Kartal, Eda – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2021
The aim of the study is to improve students' nature of science understandings while integrating nature of science aspects into appropriate science-technology-engineering-mathematics (STEM) activities. In this study, four STEM-based contextualized nature of science activities are developed during the 4 weeks study. The sample of this study consists…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Scientific Principles, Scientific Literacy, Scientific Concepts
Lederman, J. S.; Lederman, N. G.; Bartels, S.; Jimenez, J.; Acosta, K.; Akubo, M.; Aly, S.; de Andrade, M. A. B. S.; Atanasova, M.; Blanquet, E.; Blonder, R.; Brown, P.; Cardoso, R.; Castillo-Urueta, P.; Chaipidech, P.; Concannon, J.; Dogan, O. K.; El-Deghaidy, H.; Elzorkani, A.; Ferdous, T.; Fukuda, N.; Gaigher, E.; Galvis-Solano, L.; Gao, Q.; Guo, S.; Gwekwerere, Y.; Gyllenpalm, J.; Hamed Al-Lal, S.; Han-Tosunoglu, C.; Hattingh, A.; Holliday, G.; Huang, X.; Irez, S.; Jiménez, J.; Kay, G.; Koumara, A.; Kremer, K.; Kuo, P.-C.; Lavonen, J.; Leung, J. S. C.; Liao, Z.; Librea-Carden, M. R.; Lin, S. -F.; Liu, C.; Liu, E.; Liu, S. -Y.; Mamlok-Naaman, R.; Mcdonald, C. V.; Möller, A.; Morales, M.; Mulvey, B. K.; Neumann, I.; Neurohr, A.-L.; Pan, Y.; Panjaburee, P.; Penn, M.; Plakitsi, K.; Picholle, E.; Ramnarain, U.; Raykova, Z.; Rundgren, C.-J.; Salonen, S.; Santibáñez-Gómez, D.; Schwartz, R.; Sharma, R.; Srisawasdi, N.; Takiveikata, S.; Urueta-Ortiz, T.; Vitlarov, K.; Voitle, F.; Wishart, J. – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Understandings of the nature of scientific inquiry (NOSI), as opposed to engaging students in inquiry learning experiences, are included in science education reform documents around the world. However, little is known about what students have learned about NOSI during their pre-college school years. The purpose of this large-scale follow-up…
Descriptors: High School Students, Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Grade 12
Lorsbach, Anthony W.; Meyer, Allison Antink; Arias, Anna Maria – Science & Education, 2019
This study took place in an introductory science inquiry course for preservice elementary school teachers as a supplement to lessons on critical thinking. The correspondence of Charles Darwin was used to provide historical context to nature of science concepts of the sociocultural embeddedness of science, the subjective and reflective nature of…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Inquiry
Cansiz, Mustafa – Journal of Inquiry Based Activities, 2019
The purpose of this study is to develop a history of science activity which can be used to improve middle school students' nature of science views. The activity was designed and implemented based on an explicit-reflective approach within the context of the circulatory system. The activity was designed for grade 6 students and implemented during…
Descriptors: Science History, Science Instruction, Scientific Principles, Middle School Students
Hadjilouca, Rodothea; Constantinou, Costas – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2019
Background: Helping upper elementary and lower secondary school students develop an awareness of various aspects of the nature of science (NOS) and nature of technology (NOT) is a widely recognized goal of science teaching. In this study, we focus on the connections between science and technology (S&T). Purpose: We report on the design,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Foreign Countries, Scientific Principles
Chang, Hsin-Yi; Lin, Tzung-Jin; Lee, Min-Hsien; Lee, Silvia Wen-Yu; Lin, Tzu-Chiang; Tan, Aik-Ling; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Studies in Science Education, 2020
In this study, we reviewed 76 journal articles on employing drawing assessment as a research tool in science education. Findings from the systematic review suggest four justifications for using drawing as a type of research tool, including assessment via drawing as (a) an alternative method considering young participants' verbal or writing…
Descriptors: Science Education, Formative Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Cognitive Tests
Çil, Emine; Çepni, Salih – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2016
Background: One of the most important goals of science education is to enable students to understand the nature of science (NOS). However, generally regular science teaching in classrooms does not help students improve informed NOS views. Purpose: This study investigated the influence of an explicit reflective conceptual change approach compared…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Concept Formation, Reflection
Michel, Hanno; Neumann, Irene – Science & Education, 2016
Besides viewing knowledge about the nature of science (NOS) as important for its own value with respect to scientific literacy, an adequate understanding of NOS is expected to improve science content learning by fostering the ability to interrelate scientific concepts and, thus, coherently acquire scientific content knowledge. However, there is a…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Grade 6, Grade 7, Energy
Brown, Patrick – Science and Children, 2014
A rich science learning experience not only captures students' attention but also motivates them to investigate and solve problems and investigate how scientists carry out their work. This article describes how secondary science coordinator Patrick Brown's found success teaching students the nature of science by engaging them in…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Principles, Hands on Science, Physics
