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Beasley, Todd – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2022
The Native American Medicine Wheel is a powerful tool to bring alive curricular connections from science and history to mathematics and civics as part of schoolyard gardening initiatives. As a living lab these gardens also serve as valuable tools to reinforce lessons on habitat enhancement. However, deeper lessons connected to the cultures of…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Gardening, Teaching Methods, Natural Resources
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Zakiah, Linda; Sarkadi; Marini, Arita – Issues in Educational Research, 2023
The purpose of this study is to determine the strategies teachers use in teaching social tolerance to elementary school students. Social tolerance is an attitude where a person accepts a difference in terms of religion, race, culture, ethnicity, nation, and others. In the context of social tolerance, students can understand others who are from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods
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Williams, John; Pill, Shane; Coleman, James; Mallett, Cliff; Hughes, Scott – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2022
In this research, we show how a quality teaching framework can be used with psychology, specifically self-determination theory (SDT), and a Game Sense Approach (GSA) to plan and teach a unit of work as a context-specific version of quality Physical Education. This unit of work using Buroinjin, an Australian Aboriginal traditional game, was taught…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Indigenous Knowledge, Grade 5, Teaching Methods
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Murti, Desy Krisna; Gunarhadi; Winarno – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2020
The curriculum of an elementary school of Indonesian education currently emphasizes the affective aspects as a result of student learning for the sustainability of national development. This fact encourages teachers the responsibility to create and develop effective learning tools to foster tolerance, nationalism, be communicative and friendly,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Moral Development, Foreign Countries, Cartoons
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Li, Wei-Ting; Shein, Paichi Pat – Environmental Education Research, 2023
The life experiences of Indigenous students are often overlooked in school learning, thereby causing dissonance in learning. To address this issue, this study incorporated local and traditional ecological knowledges of community in this year-long course of 'place-based Indigenous education for sustainable development', using place-based design…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Indigenous Populations, Teacher Attitudes, Feedback (Response)
Hawera, Ngaarewa; Herewini, Leeana – Teaching and Learning Research Initiative, 2020
The proponents of Modern Learning Environments (MLE) or Innovative Learning Environments (ILE) are from largely non-indigenous backgrounds. In Aotearoa New Zealand, research about learning mathematics in an MLE is limited and focuses almost exclusively on English-Medium (EM) settings (Bisset, 2014; Murphy, 2016; Osborne, 2013). In contrast, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Pacific Islanders, Malayo Polynesian Languages
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Schonleber, Nanette S. – Journal of Montessori Research, 2021
Indigenous educators desire to use culturally restorative and decolonized pedagogies reflective of their own cultural values and beliefs in their science programs but have lacked models for how to start. They also often lack confidence in their ability to teach the sciences. This three-year qualitative case study used grounded theory methodology…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Montessori Method, Place Based Education
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Parwati, Ni Nyoman; Sudiarta, I. Gusti Putu; Mariawan, I. Made; Widiana, I. Wayan – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2018
The aim of this study was to describe and to test the effect of learning model (problem solving learning model oriented toward Balinese local wisdom (PSBLW) Vs Direct Instruction Model (DI)) and type of mathematics problems (open and closed problems) on the ability to solve mathematics problem of the fifth-grade students of elementary in Singaraja…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Problem Solving, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
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Harper, Susan G. – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
This research explored how Karen (first-generation refugees from Burma) elementary students engaged with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) practice of constructing scientific explanations based on evidence within the context of a cross-cultural learning community. In this action research, the researcher and a Karen parent served as…
Descriptors: Refugees, Elementary School Students, Science Instruction, Cultural Awareness