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Lin, Cheng-Ta – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2023
A purposive sampling was conducted with 109 students from Anding elementary school, Taiwan. First, we found perceived ease of learning, enjoyment, self-efficacy, social interaction and learning attitude have significant differences between integrated teaching approach and Spoon-feeding instruction in this study. Second, the research framework has…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary School Students, Difficulty Level, Student Attitudes
Tytler, Russell; Mulligan, Joanne; Prain, Vaughan; White, Peta; Xu, Lihua; Kirk, Melinda; Nielsen, Christopher; Speldewinde, Christopher – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Against a backdrop of advocacy for interdisciplinary STEM curricula, this paper explores the design principles underpinning a three-year longitudinal research project that develops and evaluates interdisciplinary mathematics and science learning sequences involving multiple teachers and student cohorts across the primary school years. The research…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Mathematics Education, Science Education, Elementary School Students
Sath, Hajra – Primary Science, 2018
Although science is a core subject, educators at Uphall Primary School have found in recent times pupils do not display the same enthusiasm for science as they do for other subjects. In order to raise the pupils' science capital and generate an eagerness among the pupils to experiment, learn and develop their curiosity about the world around them,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Video Technology, Computer Mediated Communication, Science Process Skills
Tsai, Pei-Shan; Tsai, Chin-Chung; Hwang, Gwo-Haur – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of the context-aware ubiquitous learning (u-learning) approach versus traditional instruction on students' ability to answer questions that required different cognitive skills, using the framework of Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives, including knowledge, comprehension, application,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Outcomes of Education, Cognitive Ability, Foreign Countries
Seah, Lay Hoon – Research in Science Education, 2016
This study is an attempt to examine the use of linguistic resources by primary science students so as to understand the conceptual and language demands encountered by them when constructing written explanations. The students' written explanations and the instructional language (whole-class discussion and textbook) employed over the topic, the life…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Grade 4, Science Education, Science Instruction
Madden, Lauren; Peel, Anne; Watson, Heather – Science Activities: Classroom Projects and Curriculum Ideas, 2014
As teachers begin to implement the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), they are challenged to focus on informational texts across the disciplines and engage children in critical thinking about complex scientific ideas. In this article, we present an integrated science-language arts lesson that explores…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Science Instruction, Critical Thinking, Scientific Concepts
Chang, Rong-Chi; Chung, Liang-Yi; Huang, Yong-Ming – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
The learning of plants has garnered considerable attention in recent years, but students often lack the motivation to learn about the process of plant growth. Also, students are not able to apply what they have learned in class in the form of observation, since plant growth takes a long time. In this study, we use augmented reality (AR) technology…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), Teaching Methods, Student Motivation, Simulated Environment
Rye, James A.; Selmer, Sarah J.; Pennington, Sara; Vanhorn, Laura; Fox, Sarah; Kane, Sarah – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2012
A national movement is underway to establish elementary school gardens, which can serve both academic and social purposes. These gardens can positively impact students' science achievement and provide the thematic and hands-on approach especially conducive to learning for students with disabilities. Garden-based learning (GBL) broadens the scope…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), Gardening, Community Resources, Grade 4
Liu, Tzu-Chien; Lin, Yi-Chun; Paas, Fred – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
This study investigated whether arrow-line cues can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of learning in a mobile device supported learning environment on leaf morphology of plants, either with or without the use of real plants. A cued and un-cued condition, in which primary school students used text and pictures on a tablet PC, were compared…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Handheld Devices, Cues, Plants (Botany)
Whiten, David J.; Whiten, Phyllis – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2009
This article examines important geometric concepts embedded in the shape and design of natural and manufactured objects. The Whitins first describe fourth graders exploring why manhole covers are circles. Then the authors offer a range of activities to demonstrate how inquiring about shape in botany, geology, biology, and industry can effectively…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Mathematics Teachers, Geometry, Mathematics Instruction
Frissell, Virginia; Cayton, Patricia – Science and Children, 2009
Students love learning outdoors, but how do you ensure they are absorbing the science and gaining skills as they do so? The authors found a way--a fourth-grade classroom teacher, a gifted/science resource teacher, and a group of fourth graders--embarked on a yearlong study of birds and the plants they depend on. They used their school yard as the…
Descriptors: Ornithology, Resource Teachers, Grade 4, Wildlife
Stellflue, Pat; Allen, Marie; Gerber, D. Timothy – Science and Children, 2005
This article describes a collaborative effort that included a botany professor, an art teacher, and a science teacher, called,"Plants, Pots, and Paints." This interdisciplinary project was successful in connecting content across disciplines (science to art) and for motivating fourth-and fifth-grade students to create something beautiful both they…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Science Teachers, Plants (Botany), Botany
Carter, LeAnn; Sumrall, William J.; Curry, Kristen M. – Science and Children, 2006
Digital cameras are easy to find, easy to use, and offer great potential for incorporating technology into lessons. Project ideas can range from creating collections of objects to identify (e.g., insects, plants, rocks/minerals, and so on) to documenting the signs of the seasons or recording the progress of an investigation. Even stages of the…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), Photography, Technology Integration, Science Instruction
Saleh, Mohammad; Lazonder, Ard W.; Jong, Ton de – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2007
Average-ability students often do not take full advantage of learning in mixed-ability groups because they hardly engage in the group interaction. This study examined whether structuring collaboration by group roles and ground rules for helping behavior might help overcome this participatory inequality. In a plant biology course, heterogeneously…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Student Motivation, Helping Relationship, Biology
Boyd, Amy E.; Cooper, Jim – Science Activities: Classroom Projects and Curriculum Ideas, 2004
Tree rings can be used not only to look at plant growth, but also to make connections between plant growth and resource availability. In this lesson, students in 2nd-4th grades use role-play to become familiar with basic requirements of trees and how availability of those resources is related to tree ring sizes and tree growth. These concepts can…
Descriptors: Forestry, Plants (Botany), Natural Resources, Elementary School Students