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Kucuk, Arzu – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2022
This research aimed to compare the effect of teaching science through-creative-drama activities and student-centred inquiry-based teaching on the cognitive structures of primary school pupils about the classification of living things. It was designed as an exploratory action research case study and the contribution of both interventions on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Creative Teaching, Drama
Ahmed, Fathia Othman Mohamed; Kurnaz, Mehmet Altan – African Educational Research Journal, 2021
The study aims to reveal students' mental models and perceptions regarding the concept of the celestial bodies, for instance, earth, sun, and moon. This research study was conducted as a case study focusing on qualitative data. This study also has used a sample formed of 5th-grade students, in the 2018-2019 academic year; the target sample is…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Science Instruction, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
Zeynep Colak Seker; Cihat Demir – Online Submission, 2022
The aim of this study is to investigate the end-of-unit evaluation questions in 5th grade primary school science workbook according to dimensions of the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy (RBT). For that purpose, 191 end-of-unit evaluation questions of 5th grade science workbook which is approved by the Republic of Turkey -the Ministry of National…
Descriptors: Textbook Evaluation, Grade 5, Science Instruction, Workbooks
Klein, Perry D.; Haug, Katrina N.; Arcon, Nina – Journal of Experimental Education, 2017
Argument writing is challenging for elementary students. Previous experimental research has focused on scaffolding rhetorical goals, leaving content goals relatively unexplored. In a randomized experiment, 73 students in grades 5, 6, and 7 wrote persuasive texts about difficult-to-classify vertebrates. Each student received one of three sets of…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Persuasive Discourse, Cues, Content Area Writing
Cherry, Gamaliel R. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to examine attitude and achievement among fifth grade students participating in inquiry and lecture-based forms of instruction through interactive television. Participants (N = 260) were drawn from registered users of NASA's Digital Learning Network[TM]. The first three levels of Bloom's Revised…
Descriptors: Television, Inquiry, Active Learning, Lecture Method
Brown, Tom; Creel, Sally; Lee, Velda – Science and Children, 2009
On a recent autumn afternoon at Harmony Leland Elementary in Mableton, Georgia, students in a fifth-grade science class investigated the essential process of classification--the act of putting things into groups according to some common characteristics or attributes. While they may have honed these skills earlier in the week by grouping their own…
Descriptors: Paleontology, Classification, Grade 5, Science Instruction
Banchi, Heather; Bell, Randy – Science and Children, 2008
Elementary teachers often struggle with how to design and implement inquiry instruction with their students. For many, just understanding what inquiry is can be difficult--let alone designing activities that support high levels of inquiry. In this article, the authors present a continuum by which to evaluate an activity's level of inquiry. Then,…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Grade 5
Westphal, Laurie E. – Prufrock Press Inc, 2007
"Differentiating Instruction With Menus Grades 3-5" offers teachers everything they need to create a student-centered learning environment based on choice. Addressing the four main subject areas (language arts, math, science, and social studies) and the major concepts taught within these areas, these books provide a number of different types of…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Individualized Instruction, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students