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Tekin Guler – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2025
The current study examines the impacts of scenario-based science activities on the scientific creativity and reflective thinking skills of fourth-grade students in primary school. Therefore, it was carried out in a primary school in Yozgat city center during the 2023-2024 Academic Year. An experimental group (24 students [13 girls, 11 boys]) and a…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Science Education, Thinking Skills
Stephanie T. Holmberg – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This instrumental mixed methods case study investigated Grades 3-5 classroom teachers' perceptions of teaching for creativity and the effects of a researcher-developed, one-day, online professional development creativity module intervention within a suburban school district in south-central Pennsylvania. Creativity has been identified as a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
Ertürkler, Aysen; Bagci, Hakan – Educational Research and Reviews, 2019
The aim of this study is to reveal a new and unique technique that can be used in music lessons and other courses and to determine the impact of the Enriched Creative Activities Program with the Aytürk Technique, which was developed by Ertürkler, on the creative thinking abilities of students. The study was designed according to a pretest-posttest…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creativity, Music, Music Education
Paulina Haduong; Karen Brennan – Computer Science Education, 2025
Background and Context: Learning to create self-directed and personally authentic programming projects involves encountering challenges and learning to get unstuck. Objective: This article investigates how one U.S. fourth-grade classroom engaged in practices which emphasized community supports, in the context of the classroom's implementation and…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Computer Science Education, Instructional Design, Programming
Laurel E. Brandon; Sally M. Reis; Joseph S. Renzulli; Ronald A. Beghetto – Creativity Research Journal, 2024
This mixed-methods study examined 220 teachers' responses from a new instrument, the Imagination, Creativity, and Innovation (ICI) Index. ICI Index scores represented teachers' predictions of how students would rate their school's support for student creativity, which was assumed to represent the teachers' perspective of the actual support for…
Descriptors: Creativity, Teacher Attitudes, Student Projects, Elementary School Teachers
Pierratos, Theodoros; Koumara, Anna – Primary Science, 2020
In this article, a series of activities on explicit teaching of specific aspects of the 'nature of science' are presented. The authors explore teaching the nature of science through inquiry-based activities on electric circuits. The activities concern classification of objects as conductors or insulators and took place in three classes of 4th…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Science Instruction, Learning Activities
Teena L. Martin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigated the understudied area of virtual reality (VR) creation among elementary-aged youth, exploring their engagement in VR creation and the ways in which educators can facilitate this creative process. Using an embedded case study, the researcher examined how the youth visualize writing using the VR creation tool, CoSpaces. To…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4
Pedagogical Framework for Cultivating Children's Data Agency and Creative Abilities in the Age of AI
Juho Kahila; Henriikka Vartiainen; Matti Tedre; Eetu Arkko; Anssi Lin; Nicolas Pope; Ilkka Jormanainen; Teemu Valtonen – Informatics in Education, 2024
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) topics into K-12 school curricula is a relatively new but crucial challenge faced by education systems worldwide. Attempts to address this challenge are hindered by a serious lack of curriculum materials and tools to aid teachers in teaching AI. This article introduces the theoretical foundations and…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Data, Children, Creativity
Yesilkaya, Özge Çongur; Töreyin, Ayse Meral – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
The main concern in this study is constituted by the possibility of implementing a music training model which has been developed on the basis of the Multiple Intelligence Theory in the music lessons of the 4th and 5th grades of primary schools. Core study group was formed by 150 fourth and fifth grades students from Ankara Tegmen Kalmaz Primary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Grade 4, Grade 5
Rufo, David – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2020
In the spring of 2011, a teacher allowed his fourth and fifth grade students to draw and write on their classroom tables. What began as a few names eventually turned into a series of frenetic marks that completely covered the tabletops. Over the course of two years, new groups of students brought with them another cycle of marking that evolved in…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Grade 4, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
Cognitive Flexibility: Exploring Students' Problem-Solving in Elementary School Mathematics Learning
Rahayuningsih, Sri; Sirajuddin, Sirajuddin; Nasrun, Nasrun – Journal of Research and Advances in Mathematics Education, 2021
In classroom learning, students need mathematical cognitive flexibility to be able to solve mathematical problems with the various ideas they express. To solve the problems, they must be able to grasp the problem, see it from various points of view, and should not be rigid thinking with one solving method. In fact, the students still lack the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Problem Solving, Mathematics Instruction, Creativity
Coleman, Claire M.; Lind, Tim – Waikato Journal of Education, 2020
Following recent increases in the diversity of students, technologies, pedagogies and environments, New Zealand classrooms are sites of growing complexity. Tasked with covering a broad range of disciplines within each school day, opportunities for subject integration are of increasing value to busy teachers. Developing upon a previous piece of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach
Richard, Veronique; Lebeau, Jean-Charles; Becker, Fabian; Boiangin, Nataniel; Tenenbaum, Gershon – Creativity Research Journal, 2018
Movement creativity is a key factor in motor development in children, yet very few exercise programs promote the development of motor creativity in children. To address this gap in the literature, this study tested the effectiveness of a creative exercise program on children's motor and cognitive creativity, and their probability of adaptation to…
Descriptors: Creativity, Teaching Methods, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
Smith, Eleanor K.; Pastor, Margaret – Phi Delta Kappan, 2016
Project-based learning presents an opportunity to engage both struggling students and high-achieving students. A special education teacher and a principal describe how this worked in one school by sharing the stories of two very different elementary school students. The high-achieving student learned to be more creative and take risks; the…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Teaching Methods, Learner Engagement, Special Education Teachers
Atalay, Nurhan; Boyaci, S. Dilek Belet – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2019
The objective of the present study is to determine the effect of the process of designing a slowmation (SMA) on the development of 21st century skills of "learning and innovation" in 4th grade science class "Light and Sound" and "Planet Earth" units. Study group included 44 students attending 4th grade in two private…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, 21st Century Skills, Instructional Innovation, Instructional Design