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Sung, Han-Yu; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Chen, Shan-Feng – Interactive Learning Environments, 2019
Owing to the popularity of tablet computers and smart phones, e-books have become an important medium for both formal and informal learning. However, conventional e-books are mainly designed to provide information in the form of multimedia, implying that students spend most of their time memorizing and comprehending what they read from e-books,…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Problem Solving, Electronic Publishing, Books
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Taylor, Kellie; Baek, Youngkyun – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2018
The purpose of this study was to determine what collaborative interventions produce positive effects for students working on collaborative robotics projects for science process skills, collaborative problem-solving, and learning motivation. In addition, the study examined the impact students' prior robotics experience had on science process…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Robotics, Problem Solving, Learning Motivation
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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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Barantes, Aureen Kate A.; Tamoria, Joseline R. – Journal of Biological Education Indonesia (Jurnal Pendidikan Biologi Indonesia), 2021
Science is regularly taught in ways that make the data unessential, theoretical, and disengaged from students' experiences. Although most students do anticipate to learn science, they regularly see it as being presented in uninteresting ways. This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of using LARO (Learners Active Response to Operant)…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Activities, Biology, Instructional Effectiveness
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Chen, Yen-Chieh; Lu, Yu-Ling; Lien, Chi-Jui – Interactive Learning Environments, 2021
Students' engagement in a learning environment has been a crucial factor in evaluating the quality of learning and predicting their academic success. With technologies being more applied in science education for enhancing learning engagement, it is important to study how learning environments with different levels of technological engagement…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Game Based Learning, Video Technology, Conventional Instruction
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Kamid, Kamid; Rohati, Rohati; Rahmalisa, Yelli; Anggo, Mustamin; Septi, Sabila Eka; Azzahra, Miftahul Zannah; Nawahdani, Ahmad Mansur – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2021
This study aims to integrate the local wisdom of the traditional engklek game into problem-solving-based mathematics learning at the elementary school level. The method used in this study is a mixed-method with an explanatory design. The data analysis technique used in this study was random sampling and data collection was carried out by…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Games, Indigenous Knowledge, Mathematics Instruction
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Çayci, Baris; Örnek, Gizem Tabaru – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2019
The aim of this study was to examine the effect of STEM-based activities conducted in fourth-grade primary school science classes on students' scientific process skills, problem-solving skills and academic success. The study used the experimental model and was carried out according to the pretest-posttest experimental design with a control group.…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Science, STEM Education, Learning Activities
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Chase, Catherine C.; Klahr, David – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2017
An important, but as yet unresolved pedagogical question is whether discovery-oriented or direct instruction methods lead to greater learning and transfer. We address this issue in a study with 101 fourth and fifth grade students that contrasts two distinct instructional methods. One is a blend of discovery and direct instruction called…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Direct Instruction, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Dalimonte, Cathy – Science and Children, 2013
In the STEM classroom, students can work in collaborative teams to build those essential skills needed for the 21st-century world. In project-based learning (PBL), teams of four to six students are often randomly selected to describe a realistic situation that may occur in today's workplace; this may be done by counting off in fours, fives,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Cooperative Learning, Problem Based Learning, Teamwork
Merritt, Eileen G.; Bowers, Nicole; Rimm-Kaufman, Sara E. – Grantee Submission, 2019
The development of energy literacy for all citizens is critical as we face climate change and rapid depletion of existing energy resources. This study explores energy literacy development in fourth grade classrooms. Our team developed a curriculum on energy resources aligned with the Next GenerationScience Standards. We then trained teachers how…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes, Knowledge Level
Alp, Gamze; Bulunuz, Nermin; Onan, Ögretim Üyesi Berna; Bulunuz, Mizrap – Online Submission, 2019
Noise - sound waves with high energy - is a significant element influencing the school climate today. The research took place in two primary schools in Bursa in the 2016-2017 academic year. Pre-service teachers were instructed about the process, who conducted the "Noise Map" activity with 4th-grade students in primary schools. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Acoustics, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
Tobin, Roger G.; Lacy, Sara J.; Crissman, Sally – AERA Open, 2021
In spring 2020, COVID-19 seismically shifted the education landscape as schooling moved online. We report a small-scale mixed-methods study of how that upheaval affected three-dimensional science learning in elementary school classrooms, and how the situation changed when school resumed, in modified form, in fall 2020. Teachers with experience in…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Science, COVID-19
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Cappello, Marva; Lafferty, Karen E. – Reading Teacher, 2015
Teachers can capitalize on the overwhelmingly visual nature of contemporary society for learning and teaching through integrating photography in their classroom instruction. In offering an alternative pathway for acquiring and expressing knowledge, photography has the potential to strengthen instruction across disciplines by drawing on multiple…
Descriptors: Photography, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Science, Grade 4
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Murugan Mini Ratamun; Kamisah Osman – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2018
The aim of the research is to assess the effectiveness of Virtual Lab (experimental group) compared to Physical Lab (control group) in the level of Science Process Skill mastery of topic salt experiment. This research also was done to compare the students' level of Science Process Skill mastery by gender and to find interaction effect between…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Laboratory Experiments, Computer Simulation, Science Instruction
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Song, Yanjie; Kong, Siu Cheung – Educational Media International, 2014
This paper reports an initial study on investigating inquiry-based learning in science in an upper primary class guided by an inquiry-based learning model in a seamless learning environment. Two questions are addressed: (1) how students advanced their domain knowledge?; and (2) how students developed their inquiry skills? One teacher and 27…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inquiry, Science Education, Primary Education
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