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Zhou, Ge – Research in Drama Education, 2023
This article adopts Geertz's view of cultural analysis and embodiment theory, creating a theoretical lens to explore how participatory drama can support students in their understanding of the culture connoted in Tang poetry -- a significant cultural heritage of China. A case study was conducted on fourth-grade (10-11 years old) primary school…
Descriptors: Poetry, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students, Drama
Isaacson, Kristi J.; Betz-Cahill, Christina – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2023
Explore the impact technology has on mathematical identity and agency when students use mathematical action technology to engage in cycles of proof and support case-based reasoning. This article showcases a mathematics task used in a fourth-grade class that allowed students to develop their conceptual understanding of division. The authors…
Descriptors: Division, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Grade 4
Bin Shen; Barry Bai; Jing Wang; Huan Song – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2024
Against the backdrop of declining motivation and growing social and emotional challenges in English learning experienced by Hong Kong primary school students, the study aimed to profile an interactive pattern between relevant motivational beliefs (i.e., self-efficacy, interest, and growth mindset), social and emotional learning (SEL) skills and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Emotional Learning, Correlation, Learning Motivation
Tutita M. Casa; Jillian M. Cavanna; Holly Henderson Pinter – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2024
Although teachers are expected to teach mathematics ambitiously, it is challenging for them to do so. Given that the first year represents a critical juncture between teacher preparation and inservice teaching, it may be particularly challenging to teach ambitiously. Understanding the nuanced characteristics in lessons taught by first-year…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, Lesson Plans, Beginning Teachers
Pedersen, Blaine; Makel, Matthew C.; Rambo-Hernandez, Karen E.; Peters, Scott J.; Plucker, Jonathan – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2023
School-based learning experiences are often designed with the "typical" student in mind. However, this may not be an optimal approach, given the variability of prior learning that exists in most classrooms. We investigated the variance in achievement within U.S. fourth- and eighth-grade mathematics classrooms using Trends in…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Benchmarking, Prior Learning
Bird, Erin Bridges; Harte, Peggy; Ballard, Heidi L. – Science and Children, 2020
"Citizen science" gives students a unique opportunity to engage with their own research, as well as data collected by other citizen scientists. Often, citizen science projects focus on students collecting and submitting data for scientists, which can sometimes limit opportunities to engage in the entire scientific process. This article…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Flavian, Heidi – Power and Education, 2016
In the current era, when information is accessible to all, students are less motivated to invest in long learning processes. Thus, teachers need to focus on education while developing along the way their students' self-fulfillment that is based on realistic self-awareness. By developing students' motivation to delve into the information they can…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Student Motivation, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
Donnelly, Lara Catherine – ProQuest LLC, 2020
In a phenomenological case study, the author sought to gain an awareness of the lived experiences of 4th and 5th grade ESL students, their parents, and their teachers who participated in the MindUp mindfulness curriculum. The author was interested in the relationship between the mindfulness curriculum and SEL based on the perspective of all three…
Descriptors: Metacognition, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
McLaughlin, Cheryl A.; McLaughlin, Felecia C.; Pringle, Rose M. – Science and Children, 2013
This article presents the experiences of Miss Felecia McLaughlin, a fourth-grade teacher from the island of Jamaica who used the model proposed by Bass et al. (2009) to assess conceptual understanding of four of the six types of simple machines while encouraging collaboration through the creation of learning teams. Students had an opportunity to…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Scientific Concepts, Scientific Principles, Mechanics (Process)
Mack, Nancy K. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2011
Exploring number systems of other cultures can be an enjoyable learning experience that enriches students' knowledge of numbers and number systems in important ways. It helps students deepen mental computation fluency, knowledge of place value, and equivalent representations for numbers. This article describes how the author designed her…
Descriptors: Number Systems, Mental Computation, Number Concepts, Learning Experience
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
Hutchison, Amy; Beschorner, Beth; Schmidt-Crawford, Denise – Reading Teacher, 2012
The goal of this investigation was to explore how a fourth grade teacher could integrate iPads into her literacy instruction to simultaneously teach print-based and digital literacy goals. The teacher used iPads for a three-week period during her literacy instruction and selected apps that provided unique approaches to helping the students meet…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Literacy, Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education