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Michelle Reidel; Ariel Cornett; Erin Piedmont; Kania Greer; Betsy Barrow; Alex Reyes – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2025
By some estimates, over 1.2 billion tons of soil was blown across the Great Plains during the height of the Dust Bowl. The so-called "black blizzards" these massive dust storms caused suffocated cattle, sickened children, and destroyed thousands of family farms. Formerly prosperous farmers, unsure why they had such bad luck, wondered if…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, United States History, History Instruction, Integrated Activities
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Nursel Ugur; Ünal Çakiroglu – International Journal of Technology in Education and Science, 2024
Facilitating Computer Science Unplugged (CS-unplugged) activities with reflective thinking activities lead students to in-depth reviews of their decisions and think of ways to solve the CS-unplugged problems. This study aims to evaluate the instruction enriched with reflective thinking activities to develop computational thinking skills. The study…
Descriptors: Reflection, Thinking Skills, Computer Science Education, Computation
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Sung, Euisuk; Kelley, Todd R. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
With the increasing importance of teaching STEM to young students, the engineering design process (EDP) has become a popular learning platform in K-12 STEM education. The engineering design process guides students in solving engineering problems, but there is a lack of understanding of how students utilize this process. In this study, we explored…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Engineering, Design, STEM Education
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Abdullah Koray; Behice Hilal Uzuncelebi – Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health, 2023
The study explored the effects of robotic-assisted applications on the variables of academic achievement and problem-solving skills in the "Propagation of Light" unit of the 5th grade science course. The study employed the pretest-posttest control group design, one of the quasi-experimental methods. The study sample consist of 36 5th…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Science Instruction
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Roche, Anne; Clarke, Doug; Sexton, Matt – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2023
The authors describe a lesson--"You Decide"--which challenges students but also provides opportunities for success for those who may struggle. They show how this lesson has been helpful for teachers in revealing some misconceptions that often exist in primary students' thinking. In this article, they share data on the apparent relative…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Grade 5, Grade 6, Elementary School Students
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Merino-Armero, José Miguel; González-Calero, José Antonio; Cózar-Gutiérrez, Ramón – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
In modern society technology is widely used and, with the digitization of many services, this is an upward trend. Therefore, computational thinking (CT) is an increasingly important concept; an aspect that is being reflected on educational policies and the extracurricular offer of different countries. This study aims to look at the efficacy of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Extracurricular Activities, Robotics, Elementary School Students
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Adiv Gal – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2025
This qualitative study examined the perceptions of 42 fifth-grade students (ages 11-12) along with 8 staff members, 9 ornithologists, and 10 high-tech experts who participated in a hackathon event. This was the culmination of a learning process designed to find environmental, technological, and humane solutions to the competition between the…
Descriptors: Computer Science, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Group Activities
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Siligar, E. I Pusta; Lesmana, Hendra; Zabeta, Mewa – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2022
This study aimed to produce a learning path that can help students understand the concept of percent using the context of an egg rack. This study used a design research method through the Indonesian Realistic Mathematics Education approach which was carried out at Elementary School No. 2 Gumawang, Indonesia. Data were obtained through observation,…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Education, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Activities
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Güven, Ilknur; Alpaslan, Beyza – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2022
In this research, it was aimed to examine the effects of interdisciplinary science activities on 5th grade students' creative problem-solving skills and 21st century skills. The study group consisted of 50 5th grade students, 26 girls and 24 boys, were studying at a public school in Ankara, Çankaya district in the 2018-2019 academic year. The…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Science Activities, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
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Hima, Lina Rihatul; Nusantara, Toto; Hidayanto, Erry; Rahardjo, Swasono – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2019
This article aims to describe the mathematical identity of elementary school students during studying mathematics. When studying mathematics, the students often face difficulties in understanding the concepts which results the decrease in their learning motivation. It will lead to the lack of development of their mathematical identity. The…
Descriptors: Group Activities, Learning Activities, Elementary School Students, Learning Motivation
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Ramey, Kay E.; Stevens, Reed; Uttal, David H. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
This study examines the role of spatial reasoning in learning among 5th and 6th grade students participating in a set of in-school, technology-enhanced, STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) making activities. We focus our analysis on a particular type of reasoning: spatial reasoning. Prior research has shown that spatial…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Education, Spatial Ability, Problem Solving
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Livy, Sharyn; Hamilton, Scott; Downton, Ann – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2022
The purpose of this article is to report how Year 6 teachers used geometric reasoning tasks to foster students' mathematical attitudes and dispositions by encouraging communication as students constructed mathematical meaning for themselves. The Year 6 teachers implemented two tasks to provide a rich mathematical assessment opportunity…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Evaluation Methods, Problem Solving, Grade 5
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Mendez, James; Baird, Kate; Patino, Greicy – Science and Children, 2019
Picture this: a PhD chemist, PhD science educator, and a preservice Latina elementary educator walk into an aftercare program for primary and intermediate students from a rural school. These students are identified as low income and at risk and therefore eligible to participate in this school-provided aftercare. While across the state, these same…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, After School Programs, Low Income Students, At Risk Students
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Eniko Orsolya Bereczki; Zsofia K. Takacs; J. Elizabeth Richey; Huy A. Nguyen; Michael Mogessie; Bruce M. McLaren – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: Mindfulness practices enhance executive function skills and academic achievement, spurring interest in integrating mindfulness interventions into education. Embedding mindfulness practice into a digital math game may provide a low-cost, scalable way to induce mindfulness and boost game-based learning, yet this approach remains…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Educational Games, Video Games, Game Based Learning
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Park, Joonhyeong; Song, Jinwoong – Research in Science Education, 2020
In the process of problem solving, intuitive thinking leads to findings that go beyond gaps and plays a decisive role in problem solving. Considering that problems often need to be solved in groups rather than by individuals, it is necessary to examine how intuitive thinking expressed by individuals is shared and elaborated among peers in a group…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Grade 6, Intuition
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