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Carlos Evangelio; Sixto González-Víllora; Carmen Peiró-Velert – Sport, Education and Society, 2025
This qualitative study aimed to describe the collaborative process followed by an in-service teacher and two university researchers in co-designing and implementing a Health-based Physical Education/Sport Education hybridization and to explore the perceived strengths/weaknesses of the process. An 11-lesson (six weeks) intervention on rope-skipping…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Athletics, Health Education, Program Effectiveness
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Hughes, Bradley S.; Corrigan, Michael W.; Grove, Douglas; Andersen, Sage B.; Wong, Joseph T. – International Journal of STEM Education, 2022
Background: To inform STEM education for benefiting emerging bilingual (EB) and English fluent (EF) students, the present study evaluated the order effects of integrating science and arts within a large-scale, ongoing effort investigating the efficacies of Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)-aligned Science Technology, Engineering, and Math…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Bilingual Students, Art Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Županec, Vera; Lazarevic, Tihomir; Sekulic, Vanja; Pribicevic, Tijana – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2023
Interdisciplinary teaching and learning is an approach that synthesizes the curricular objectives and methods of two or more disciplines or subjects focusing on a specific topic or issue. While it is being increasingly implemented in universities, at lower levels of education there are still countries where science subjects are taught and learned…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Interdisciplinary Approach, Biology, Science Instruction
Wolf, Rebecca; Cook, Michael; Reid, Alan; Neitzel, Amanda; Ross, Steven; Risman, Kelsey – Grantee Submission, 2021
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the Literacy-Infused Science Using Technology Innovation Opportunity (LISTO) validation project (Valid 45). LISTO was funded by the Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund and involved a multi-year intervention that provided virtual professional development and coaching, and literacy-infused science curricula to…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Science Teachers, Rural Schools, Elementary School Teachers
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Xu, Lihua; Prain, Vaughan; Speldewinde, Christopher – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
There is a growing interest in the value of teachers guiding students to generate their own representations to support conceptual learning in science and across complementary subjects such as mathematics. However, this approach to an interdisciplinary focus poses challenges for programme design and learning assessment. In this paper, we report on…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Optics, Interdisciplinary Approach, Science Instruction
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Mariani, Melissa; Berger, Carolyn; Koerner, Kathleen; Sandlin, Cassie – Professional School Counseling, 2017
This article describes efforts undertaken to design, deliver, and evaluate a college and career readiness (CCR) unit for fifth-grade students. Preliminary findings from the school counselor-developed and -delivered intervention, Operation Occupation, supported interdisciplinary efforts between counselors and classroom teachers. Pre- and…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Intervention, Elementary School Students
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Schoevers, Eveline M.; Leseman, Paul P. M.; Kroesbergen, Evelyn H. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2020
This study evaluates the effects of the Mathematics, Arts, and Creativity in Education (MACE) program on students' ability in geometry and visual arts in the upper grades of elementary school. The program consisted of a lesson series for fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students in which geometry and visual arts were integrated, alongside with a…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Geometry, Visual Arts, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Schneller, Andrew J.; Harrison, Laura M.; Adelman, Julia; Post, Shannon – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2021
This mixed methods case study research evaluates the outcomes of a place-based experiential environmental education curriculum that incorporated environmental art and muralism to teach fifth to sixth graders about the Hudson River Watershed, environmental issues, and ecosystem recovery. Students showed a statistically significant improvement at…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Environmental Education, Place Based Education, Outdoor Education
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Masadis, Grigorios; Filippou, Filippos; Derri, Vasiliki; Mavridis, Georgios; Rokka, Stella – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
The aim of this study was to investigate: a. the effect of an interdisciplinary program of Greek traditional dance by the means of the teamwork method of teaching social skills to students. b. whether this effect was similar for boys and girls. The sample of the study constituted of 206 elementary school pupils (4th, 5th, and 6th class). The…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach, Dance
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Simpson Steele, Jamie; Fulton, Lori; Fanning, Lisa – Journal of Dance Education, 2016
The integration of science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) serves to develop creative thinking and twenty-first-century skills in the classroom (Maeda 2012). Learning through STEAM promotes novelty, innovation, ingenuity, and task-specific purposefulness to solve real-world problems--all aspects that define creativity. Lisa…
Descriptors: Dance Education, STEM Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Creative Thinking
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Edelen, Daniel; Bush, Sarah B.; Nickels, Megan – Science and Children, 2019
Teachers have the daunting task of preparing students for a future that they cannot predict. In an age of information where students have the world quite literally at their fingertips, and with the ever-growing momentum of integrated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), it is not enough that students experience STEM subjects…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, STEM Education, Academic Achievement, Interdisciplinary Approach
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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
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Woods, Scott Christopher; Cromley, Jennifer Grace; Hackmann, Donald Gene – Journal of Educational Administration, 2020
Purpose: This study explored implementation of the middle school concept (MSC) in Illinois middle-level schools, examining relationships between MSC implementation and schools' relative wealth, racial/ethnic composition, and achievement levels. Design/methodology/approach: This quantitative study utilized a sample of 137 Illinois middle-level…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7
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Phillips Galloway, Emily; Uccelli, Paola; Aguilar, Gladys; Barr, Christopher D. – AERA Open, 2020
In this study, we examine the unique and shared contributions of Spanish and English core academic language skills (CALS) to English reading comprehension in a population of Spanish-English dual language learners in Grades 4 and 5 (n = 165). We focus on cross-disciplinary CALS, operationalized as sets of high-utility lexical, syntactic and…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Spanish, Academic Language, Language Skills
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Erdogan, Mehmet – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2015
The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of Summer Environmental Education Program (SEEP) on elementary school students' environmental knowledge, affect, skills and behavior which are the main components of environmental literacy. The sample consisted of 45 students (25 males, 20 females) studying in 4th through 8th grades and living in…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Environmental Education, Elementary School Students, Knowledge Level
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