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Download full textDwi Yulianti; Herpratiwi – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2024
This study aims to develop a science, environment, technology, and society (SETS)-based learning module to enhance critical thinking skills among elementary school students. Employing a research and development (R&D) approach adapting the Borg and Gall model, this module is designed to enrich the learning process of natural and social sciences…
Descriptors: Learning Modules, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Elementary School Students
Direct linkAkcay, Behiye B. – Science Activities: Classroom Projects and Curriculum Ideas, 2013
A class activity has been designed to help fourth grade students to identify basic insect features as a means of promoting student creativity while making an imaginary insect model. The 5Es (Engage, Explore, Explain, Extend [or Elaborate], and Evaluate) learning cycle teaching model is used. The 5Es approach allows students to work in small…
Descriptors: Entomology, Learning Processes, Creativity, Grade 4
Yanez, Juan; Journell, Heather; Bergman, Daniel – Science and Children, 2012
With the world population recently surpassing seven billion people, it is critical for students to consider how such growth can lead to limited resources. Both the idea of diminishing resources and the magnitude of enormous numbers can be difficult for children (and many adults) to fully comprehend. For this particular lesson, the authors chose to…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Learning Processes, Grade 4, Grade 3
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
Elmendorf, Heidi G. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2006
In this essay, the author describes her experience with an experiential model of learning through teaching that gives college students the opportunity to use what they learn in the college classroom to develop curricula and then teach those curricula in an elementary school. Her specific experience was with a science course for non-science majors,…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Curriculum Development, Science Curriculum, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
