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Christelle 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)
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Akbayrak, Kemal; Namdar, Bahadir – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2019
The purpose of this study is to design an argumentation activity for third-grade students learning about the features defining matter. The research was carried out with seven students who enrolled in a tutoring program in a science and art center in the Eastern Black Sea region of Turkey during the academic year of 2017-2018. The activities were…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Children
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Roth, Jamila; Reynolds, Laura K. – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2020
Seagrass ecosystems are widespread, valuable, and threatened. We have used this system as a model to teach 3rd-7th grade students about food webs, the interconnectedness of ecosystems, ecosystem services, and the effects of human activity on coastal systems. Our objective was to increase student understanding of seagrass ecosystems and other key…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Natural Resources, Ecology, Environmental Education