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Toh, Yancy; So, Hyo-Jeong; Seow, Peter; Chen, Wenli; Looi, Chee-Kit – Learning, Media and Technology, 2013
This paper shares the theoretical and methodological frameworks that are deployed in a 3-year study to examine how Singapore primary school students leverage on mobile technology for seamless learning. This notion of seamless learning refers to the integrated and synergistic effects of learning in both formal and informal settings, which is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Inquiry, Cooperation
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Sickel, Aaron J.; Lee, Michele H.; Pareja, Enrique M. – Science and Children, 2010
How can a teacher simultaneously teach science concepts through inquiry while helping students learn about the nature of science? After pondering this question in their own teaching, the authors developed a 5E learning cycle lesson (Bybee et al. 2006) that concurrently embeds opportunities for fourth-grade students to (a) learn a science concept,…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Learning Processes, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
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Hess, Karin K. – Science and Children, 2010
Learning progressions (LPs)--descriptive continuums of how students develop and demonstrate more sophisticated understanding over time--have become an increasingly important tool in today's science classrooms. Here the author discusses some of the research behind learning progressions and presents The Science Inquiry Profile for PreK-4. This is a…
Descriptors: Classrooms, Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Elementary School Students