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Capobianco, Brenda M.; Rupp, Madeline – School Science and Mathematics, 2014
This study investigates grades 5 and 6 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teachers' planned and actualized engineering design-based instruction, the instruments used to characterize their efforts, and the implications this work has for teachers' implementations of an integrated approach to STEM education.…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Elementary School Teachers, Integrated Curriculum, Observation
Mortimer, Matthew – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Problem: Educators struggle with how to include the attacks of September 11th, 2001 in the nation's social studies classrooms. This study investigates how teachers engage in instruction about these events and the messages students take away from that instruction. Much of the research to date on the instruction of 9/11 focuses on resources and…
Descriptors: Terrorism, Social Studies, United States History, Teaching Methods
Streller, Sabine – Science and Children, 2014
Scientific investigations are usually introduced to children by referring to phenomena and occurrences that they already know about from their environment. The goal is that children learn to understand everyday observations and experiences from a scientific perspective, pose questions, express and test simple hypotheses by planning and performing…
Descriptors: Science Experiments, Observation, Science Education, Teaching Methods
Veon, Kenneth E. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Formative assessment is a classroom learning process that consists of clear goals and objectives, assessing students' knowledge, providing feedback and adjusting instruction based upon the data within a socially interactive process. Because of inconsistent implementation of the formative assessment process within classrooms, the efficacy of the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Formative Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Elementary School Students
Murmann, Mai; Avraamidou, Lucy – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2014
The aim of this qualitative case study was to explore the use of stories as tools for learning within formal and informal learning environments. The design was based on three areas of interest: (a) the story as a tool for learning; (b) the student as subjects engaging with the story; and (c) the context in which the story learning activity takes…
Descriptors: Museums, Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Animals
Brugar, Kristy A.; Dickman, Andrew H. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2013
Symbols have always had an important role in shaping our identity as a nation. The American flag, the Statue of Liberty, the White House, and the bald eagle all help to convey American values such as liberty, freedom, democracy, and independence. But how do elementary students understand these symbols and the values behind them? In this article,…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Heritage Education, Visual Aids, Visualization
Nilsen, Katherine Joy – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study explores how university students (i.e., undergraduate and graduate students) participating in a place-based outreach program practiced teaching strategies on four field trips. The outreach program, Learning in Place-Based Environments (LPBE), provided opportunities for the university students to teach fifth grade students about place,…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Teaching, Student Teachers, Place Based Education
Halvorsen, Anne-Lise; Kesler Lund, Alisa – Social Studies, 2013
This article examines the experiences of a group of fifth-grade teachers who used lesson study, a teacher-driven form of professional development, to teach history in a project supported by a Teaching American History Grant. The project addressed the following questions: What does a lesson study cycle for history education look like? What…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Grade 5, Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development
Al Darwish, Salwa – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2015
This qualitative study aims at detecting areas that requires to be developed in the EFL reading program in elementary stages in Kuwaiti public schools by using children's literature. It also examines the reading program in the public elementary curriculum. The participants were six English language major students from the College of Basic…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Programs, Childrens Literature, English (Second Language)
Runesson, Ulla – Perspectives in Education, 2013
During the last decade, "Lesson Study", a Japanese professional development model involving a community of learners, has been spreading to countries around the world. "Lesson Study" is a systematic process of inquiry into classroom practices where teachers collaborate in planning, implementing, observing and revising lessons.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Inquiry, Mathematics Instruction, Foreign Countries
Calik, Muammer; Aytar, Ayse – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2013
The principal aim of this study is to determine what the extent of the prospective primary teachers' (PPT) pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) is on "effect of human on environment" subject in grade 5 science and technology curriculum before and after "Teaching Practice" course. Within case study research methodology, the study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Capobianco, Brenda M. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2011
This study examines a fifth grade science teacher's attempts at integrating engineering design using the construct of uncertainty. Collaborative action research served as a supportive mechanism to uncover and confront the teacher's uncertainties. Data were gathered through semi-structured interviews, reflections, classroom observations, lesson…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Action Research, Interviews, Engineering
Andersen, Stephanie – Science and Children, 2010
You'll gain plenty of weather resources from this month's issue (temperature concepts, weather instruments, the water cycle/evaporation). You can use that information with these outdoor seasonal connections.
Descriptors: Weather, Water, Science Education, National Standards
Schlessman, Elizabeth – Rethinking Schools, 2011
As teachers plan instruction--even instruction about punctuation--they have the opportunity to engage students' minds and create new labels: question-asking, problem-solving. How teachers teach embeds a vision of who they think kids are and what they think kids are capable of. Are they destined for a future of critical thinking, questioning,…
Descriptors: Punctuation, Teaching Methods, Lesson Plans, Grade 5
Mensah, Felicia Moore – Journal of Negro Education, 2011
In this article, the researcher discusses three elementary pre-service teachers' experiences in co-planning and co-teaching a Pollution Unit in a 4th-5th grade science classroom in New York City. The study makes use of microteaching papers, lesson plans, researcher classroom observations, interviews, and informal conversations to elicit lessons…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Science Teachers, Grade 5, Microteaching
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