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David Jacob – ProQuest LLC, 2024
When educational leaders supervise the implementation of standards-based curricula, they should understand the forces acting on classroom teachers during that implementation process. This study investigated the lived experience of 20 elementary teachers who developed, piloted, and implemented an elementary science curriculum (ESC). Using DiMaggio…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Science Curriculum, Teaching Experience, Elementary School Teachers
Ende, Alayla – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this teacher-practitioner research study was to examine how elementary teacher candidates engaged in sensemaking about the learning process within the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and to further examine how they engaged in sensemaking about NGSS teaching and curriculum development. Interviews and course artifacts from 14…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Methods Courses, Academic Standards, Preservice Teachers
Caroline Hadley Long – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Science education literature calls for students' participation in science practices through ongoing collective sensemaking built on coherence from the student perspective. However, few studies systematically consider students' point of view and there is little guidance for how teachers can lead the class to co-construct specified learning goals…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Science Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students
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Katlyne Stiles; Surbhi Bansil; Brittany Acevedo; W. Martin Kast; Dieuwertje J. Kast – Connected Science Learning, 2024
The goal of the University of Southern California (USC) WonderKids Program is to expose students to numerous Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) careers in an after-school setting. Elementary school students explore STEM fields with hands-on curricula and guest speakers from those fields. In partnership with the USC/Norris…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Cancer, STEM Education, Audiology
Kevin McElhaney; Rochelle Urban; Danae Kamdar; Anthony Baker; KellyAnn Tsai; Jeremy Roschelle – Digital Promise, 2024
OpenSciEd is a set of Creative Commons licensed, standards aligned curriculum and teacher professional learning materials that will be available for grades K-12. Using a storyline model that gives students the responsibility of "figuring out" science phenomena by engaging in science practices and classroom discussion to achieve…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs
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Kristin M. Gagnier; Steven Holochwost; Kelly R. Fisher; Manda Jackson – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Improving achievement in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) is essential for elevating individual success and solving societal challenges. Yet national and international assessments paint a poor picture of students' STEM competencies (NAEP, 2019; OECD, 2018). An untapped avenue to improve STEM education lies in developing…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Science Curriculum, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement
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Mutiara Eka Betari – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
The independent curriculum is designed to be a better future solution for education in Indonesia. This curriculum is expected to reduce the learning losses that occurred after the COVID-19 pandemic. In the independent curriculum at the elementary school level, natural science subjects are changed to natural and social science subjects. Natural…
Descriptors: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Curriculum
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Robert Murphy; Christopher Harris; Mingyu Feng – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
Background: The Framework for K-12 Science Education (NRC, 2012) and Next Generation Science Standards ([NGSS] NGSS Lead States, 2013) emphasize that all students from the earliest grades onward must have the opportunity to learn and actively participate in authentic science. In K-12 science instruction, this means that students should have the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Science Instruction
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Aral, Neriman; Kartal, Metin; Deniz Gülleroglu, Hamide; Aslan, Berna; Özdogan Özbal, Ece; Aydos, Sebahat; Kadan, Gül; Dinçer, Aysemine – SAGE Open, 2022
Last five decades have witnessed the comprehensive growth of science education around the world as the science is regarded as the major tenets of innovation and economic growth. Various extant studies on science education have concentrate on how to deliver and put the science in both curriculum and classrooms. However, there are rarely researches…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Science Education, Science Curriculum
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Bravo González, Paulina; Reiss, Michael J. – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2023
Background: There is a growing view that 'Big Ideas of science education' are useful for teaching science but there is not much knowledge of how teachers work with them. Purpose: This study explores the conceptualisation and practice of the use of Big Ideas of science education by primary and secondary teachers in Chile. Sample: A total of 63…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Srithai, Tony Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2022
For decades, education policy has prioritized the need to improve reading and math achievement while science teaching and learning have received far less emphasis. In 2013, schools across the United States began implementing Next Generation Science Standards (or similarly structured, state-adopted science standards). These new science standards…
Descriptors: Suburban Schools, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation, Elementary School Curriculum
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Duckworth, Eleanor – LEARNing Landscapes, 2021
In this commentary, summarized from a recent interview, the author reminisces about a career dedicated to critical exploration in the classroom. She discusses the formation of the Moon Group, a group of teachers who met over a period of 25 years to study the behaviour of the moon. Duckworth later describes an exercise in which her students…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Science Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Astronomy
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Tamanna Sultana; Zeba Farhana; Sameul Hoque; Md. Al-Amin – Discover Education, 2024
STEM (Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology) education has widely been considered to have the potential to prepare students with 21st-century skills. Though the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) is concerned with developing human resources for the 21st-century, STEM education has not yet achieved a strong position in the national…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Elementary School Teachers, Textbook Evaluation
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Paula A. Magee; Samantha M. Paredes Scribner; Craig Willey – International Journal of Teacher Leadership, 2024
In this article, we describe our work with a teacher collaborative focused on enhancing elementary teachers' conceptualization of culture, culturally relevant pedagogy, culturally relevant science pedagogy and the process of developing culturally relevant science curricula. Using culturally relevant pedagogy as inspiration for equitable science…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Culturally Relevant Education, Science Instruction, Elementary School Teachers
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Mjege Kinyota – Science Education International, 2023
This study used a three-phase design to explore how teachers' views and practices of scientific inquiry can be reconciled with early graders' ability to engage in scientific inquiry. First, 19 early years teachers were interviewed to explore their views and practices of scientific inquiry. Second, six standard two students were exposed to a…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Science Instruction, Barriers, Scientific Research
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