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Direct linkChristelle Fayad; Hayat Hokayem; Ihsan Ghazal – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2024
To foster students' meaningful learning of science, we designed and implemented a unit for five third-grade students that allowed them to understand Carbon Footprint (CF) in a public school in North Texas. The unit lasted seven weeks, where students identified the effects of distance traveled and packaging on the CF of certain consumable products.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Grade 3, Climate, Conservation (Environment)
Download full textKaldybekova, Raziya; Aksoy, Bülent; Abdymanapov, Bahadurkhan – Review of International Geographical Education, 2021
The aim of this research is to determine the impact of activity-based teaching on students' map literacy academic achievements in teaching secondary school seventh grade map skills subjects. The research was carried out in a semi-experimental design model with a pretest-posttest control group. The academic achievement test, consisting of a total…
Descriptors: Map Skills, Multiple Literacies, Learning Activities, Geography Instruction
An, Song A.; Cashman, Timothy G.; Tillman, Daniel – Journal of International Social Studies, 2022
This research study focuses on preservice teachers' (n=66) inspection of pedagogical connections between geography and geometrical reasoning. The aim of this study was to empirically investigate the use of mathematical analysis to enrich the social studies topics of the distortion of country sizes on the world map. The analysis of data collected…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Geography, Teaching Methods, Geometric Concepts
Buchanan, Lisa Brown; Tschida, Christina M.; Brown, Seth N. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2016
The Giant Traveling Map program is a collection of very large, flat maps, each with an accompanying set of teaching resources. The maps are available for rent to U.S. schools and community organizations for exploring world geography. The Giant Traveling Map program provides students with a unique kinesthetic learning experience that captures their…
Descriptors: Maps, Geography Instruction, Kinesthetic Methods, Elementary Education
Mandrikas, Achilleas; Stavrou, Dimitrios; Skordoulis, Constantine – Physics Education, 2017
In this paper a teaching-learning sequence (TLS) introducing pre-service elementary teachers (PET) to weather map reading, with emphasis on wind assignment, is presented. The TLS includes activities about recognition of wind symbols, assignment of wind direction and wind speed on a weather map and identification of wind characteristics in a…
Descriptors: Weather, Map Skills, Sequential Learning, Preservice Teachers
Morris, Ronald V. – Social Studies, 2016
Students used a compass trail to show how they could perform service to their school. When students performed service learning, they completed a real task that was needed for a grateful audience conjoined with academic content in the lesson. Students worked on the school grounds and used content from their regular curriculum while looking for…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Science Activities, Navigation, Elementary School Science
Bathurst, Effie G. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1940
The conservation excursion takes the child out of the schoolroom and into his natural and social environment and helps him to study it and to participate in the conservation of its natural and human resources. The conservation excursion, like any other school journey, is not intended as a substitute for books, magazines, pictures, or any other…
Descriptors: Educational History, Conservation (Environment), Conservation Education, Outdoor Education
