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Hofverberg, Hanna – Environmental Education Research, 2020
This article explores the significance of students' encounters with materiality in general and with crafting materials in particular when learning for sustainability. The aim of the explorative study is to illustrate a research approach that can show what students and the material do in correspondence and what stories emerge from this activity. An…
Descriptors: Handicrafts, Sustainability, Environmental Education, Video Technology
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Arrington, T. Logan; Moore, Alison L.; Bagdy, Lauren M. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2021
This article presents the results of a collective case study exploring how K12 practitioners perceive the interaction of systems thinking, creativity, and learning from failure within their professional practice. In order to identify K12 practitioners who were well-versed in systems thinking, we targeted students within an instructional design and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Case Studies, Creativity, Kindergarten
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Corrin, William; Zhu, Pei; Shih, Miki; Brown, Kevin Thaddeus, Jr.; Teres, Jed; Darrow, Catherine; Nichols, Austin; Lack, Kelly – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2022
These are the appendices for the report "The Effects of an Academic Language Program on Student Reading Outcomes." This study investigated WordGen Elementary, a program designed to improve fourth- and fifth-grade students' ability to understand and communicate academic language and their general reading skill. The program provider…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness, Reading Achievement
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Sandra Parth; Maximilian Schickl; Karin Oberauer; Susanne Kubisch; Veronika Deisenrieder; Nina Liebhaber; Melanie Frick; Gerd Michelsen; Johann Stötter; Lars Keller – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
This follow-up study presents a design-based research (DBR) setting implemented over a three-year project called 'eKidZ - Teach Your Parents Well' which uses research-based learning and follows the four phases of DBR. In an iterative cycle, 20 teenagers aged 14-16 took on the role of researchers and investigated intergenerational learning and the…
Descriptors: Climate, Scientific Research, Science Education, Secondary School Students
Chang, Sau Hou – Online Submission, 2016
This paper aims to share the experiences of redesigning an elementary education program. Steps of redesigning the elementary education program were enumerated. Challenges in the redesign of the elementary education program were discussed. The new elementary education program was described. Lessons learned from the redesign of the elementary…
Descriptors: Elementary School Curriculum, Program Design, Program Descriptions, Program Development
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Wang, Tiange; Lee, Jin Sook – Bilingual Research Journal, 2023
In response to the limitations presented by restrictive language separation practices in dual language immersion programs, this study describes a curriculum bridging approach that was undertaken by a group of teachers in a one-way Chinese English Dual Language Education program to promote and build on students' full linguistic repertoires. The…
Descriptors: Chinese, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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D'Angelo, Belinda; Dollinger, Mollie – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2023
Disparity in educational and career outcomes between rural, regional and remote (RRR) students and their metropolitan counterparts persists despite successive federal and state government initiatives. In this paper, we will present a study that highlights one important, yet overlooked, avenue to improve outcomes for RRR students: early-stage…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Foreign Countries, Career Choice
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Easter, Jaclyn; Hollister, Erin; Wilcox, Jesse – Science and Children, 2019
Although science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) initiatives have received increased attention in recent years (Bybee 2011), the focus is often on science and mathematics (Thornburg 2009). Yet, engineering has been referred to as "the glue that holds the other STEM subjects together" (Thornburg 2009). With the release of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Problem Solving, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
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Dankenbring, Chelsey; Capobianco, Brenda M.; Eichinger, David – Science and Children, 2014
In this article, the authors provide an overview of engineering and the engineering design process, and describe the steps they took to develop a fifth grade-level, standards-based engineering design task titled "Getting the Dirt on Decomposition." Their main goal was to focus more on modeling the discrete steps they took to create and…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Design, Curriculum Design, Task Analysis
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Chiu, Jennifer L.; Fick, Sarah J.; McElhaney, Kevin W.; Alozie, Nonye; Fujii, Reina – Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research, 2021
This paper addresses an important consideration for promoting equitable engineering instruction: understanding how teachers contextualize curricular materials to draw upon student and community resources. We present a descriptive case study of two 5th grade teachers who co-designed a Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)-aligned curricular unit…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Teaching Methods, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
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Tosh, Katie; Augustine, Catherine H.; Schwartz, Heather L. – RAND Corporation, 2022
The Wallace Foundation's Partnerships for Social and Emotional Learning Initiative is a six-year initiative that The Wallace Foundation launched in 2017 to explore whether and how children benefit when schools and their out-of-school-time programs partner to improve social and emotional learning (SEL), as well as what it takes to do this work. SEL…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Case Studies, Partnerships in Education, Elementary School Students
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French, Raechel; Scott-Webber, Lennie; Sivakumar, Anjana – Journal of Education and Learning, 2020
Kindergarten education is becoming a priority throughout the USA as research shows its importance on later in life outcomes. The State of Washington instated full-day kindergarten for all public-school students beginning in 2016-2017. It "…is part of the state's constitutionally protected definition of 'Basic Education'" (Reykdal, n.d.,…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Case Studies, Educational Change, School Schedules
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Mary Jo Dondlinger – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2021
Although online course design is no longer new, few design cases describe the development of entire courses based on principles of student-centered learning design. This design case chronicles the context, design challenges, and successes and failures of a graduate course on Technology & Inquiry-based Instructional Methods for an online…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Online Courses, Instructional Design, Graduate Students
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Gamze Ozogul; Jana Reisslein; Martin Reisslein – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2016
Even though engineering outreach to K-12 schools initially seemed to be a simple undertaking, it proved to require complex design solutions related to a variety of issues. The purpose of this design case is to tell the story of our National Science Foundation (NSF) supported engineering outreach project, that took place between the years of…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Rillero, Peter; Koerner, Mari; Jimenez-Silva, Margarita; Merrit, Joi; Farr, Wendy J. – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2017
Teachers need to be able to design and implement problem-based learning (PBL) experiences to help students master the content and the processes in new mathematics and science education standards. Due to the changed population of learners within schools, it is also critically important that teachers in the elementary grades have the abilities to…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Language Minorities, Mathematics Instruction
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