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McCullagh, John; Doherty, Andrea – Primary Science, 2023
Previously the authors have reported on the merits of involving student teachers in school-based curriculum development projects (McCullagh and Doherty, 2018; Earle and McCullagh 2020; McCullagh and Doherty 2021). These projects have involved up to 20 primary science specialist student teachers planning and teaching lessons in a small number of…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Science Instruction, Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development
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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Kathryn N. Hayes; Jessica R. Gladstone; Brit Toven-Lindsey; Christine L. Bae – Science Education, 2025
This paper is part of the special issue on Teacher Learning and Practice within Organizational Contexts. Shifting instructional practices in elementary schools to include more equitable, reform-based pedagogies is imperative for supporting students' development as science learners. Teachers need high quality professional development (PD) to learn…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Equal Education, Student Development, Context Effect
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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Mabrouk, Suzanne T. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
An online chemistry of art course was developed for K-12 teachers enrolled in a Master of Education in Interdisciplinary STEM Education program. This course focused on the chemistry involved in the preparation of artists' materials, art, and the authentication of art and artifacts. The specific course topics addressed safety in creating art; the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Electronic Learning, Chemistry, Graduate Students
McCrevan, Jason – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Elementary schools face pressures to substantially increase student achievement in all subjects with limited time in the school day. In particular, science struggles to gain instructional momentum due to many internal and external factors. The school district of Wynne (pseudonym), located within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, has generational…
Descriptors: Science Education, Educational Policy, STEM Education, Science Instruction
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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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Gerard, Libby; Bradford, Allison; Linn, Marcia C. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2022
Guiding teachers to customize curriculum has shown to improve science instruction when guided effectively. We explore how teachers use student data to customize a web-based science unit on plate tectonics. We study the implications for teacher learning along with the impact on student self-directed learning. During a professional development…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Independent Study, Science Instruction, Web Based Instruction
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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
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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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Avci, Filiz – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2022
Introduction: The aim of the study was to examine the effects on Primary School Teacher Candidates of developing and implementing jigsaw technique activities enriched with educational games in Science and Technology Teaching lessons. Methods: In the study, the mixed design was used. The single group pre-test post-test weak experimental pattern…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Preservice Teachers, Science Instruction, Foreign Countries
Cody Booth – New England College Journal of Applied Educational Research, 2022
In mid-March of 2020, the United States realized the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic was real and was affecting our world in ways not seen for 100 years. From its tattered beginnings to now, teachers have answered the call and have remained vigilant and flexible regarding their professional practices, pedagogy, and overall sense of what it truly means…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Equal Education, Teacher Welfare
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Akcanca, Nur – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2020
This study aimed to investigate teacher candidates' perspectives about the 'Basic Science in Primary Education' course which adopted inquiry-based instruction approach. The participants of this study consisted of 87 teacher candidates (18 males, 69 females) who continued their education in the Department of Primary School Teaching at Çanakkale…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Student Attitudes, Science Instruction, Elementary School Science
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Lacy, Sara J.; Tobin, Roger G.; Crissman, Sally; DeWater, Lezlie; Gray, Kara E.; Haddad, Nick; Hammerman, James K. L.; Seeley, Lane – Science Education, 2022
We describe the development, design, implementation, and preliminary classroom results of an innovative curriculum, "Focus on Energy," that supports learning about energy in Grades 4-5. The curriculum is grounded in the concepts of science as practice, model-based reasoning, and learning progressions, and builds on students' pre-existing…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Grade 4, Grade 5
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