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William J. Sumrall – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2025
When educators started incorporating the letter A into the STEM acronym to form STEAM some science educators had reservations. Seen from a western, rationalistic way of knowing (Colucci-Gray et al. 2017, 23) the STEM community had detractors regarding the idea of integrating art into science. Hence, scientific language is often thought of as being…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, STEM Education, Art Activities, Art Education
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Ying-Chih Chen; Michelle Jordan – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2024
Student Uncertainty as Pedagogical Resource (SUPeR) is a teaching approach that science teachers can use to promote student scientific literacy, practice, and learning. SUPeR helps students navigate scientific uncertainty to improve understanding of scientific concepts and phenomena. The SUPeR approach consists of four phases: (1) problematize a…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Lesson Plans, Scientific Literacy, Teaching Methods
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Kizilaslan, Aydin; Zorluoglu, S. Levent; Sözbilir, Mustafa – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2019
Students with visual impairments have the same span of cognitive abilities as their peers, but science instruction typically relies very heavily on vision. The preponderance of visually oriented and visually complex science concepts poses significant challenges to learning among students with visual impairment. This study is engaging, hands-on…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Teaching Methods
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Cengiz, Ekrem – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2018
The goal of this study is to present and evaluate a different way of teaching concepts related to the reflection of light (incident beam, reflecting beam, angle of incidence, angle of reflection, surface, regular reflection, and diffuse reflection). The participants were 42 sixth-grade students (between the ages of 11 and 12) attending a public…
Descriptors: Reflection, Light, Grade 6, Middle School Students
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Cakir, Nevin Kozcu; Guven, Gokhan – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2019
The purpose of the current study is to design and develop an Arduino-assisted robotic and coding activity in compliance with the 5E learning model for middle school students to construct knowledge and realize learning in science teaching. The study was conducted on 6th grade students attending a private middle school in Turkey in the second term…
Descriptors: Robotics, Coding, Middle School Students, Science Instruction
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Roth, Jamila; Reynolds, Laura K. – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2020
Seagrass ecosystems are widespread, valuable, and threatened. We have used this system as a model to teach 3rd-7th grade students about food webs, the interconnectedness of ecosystems, ecosystem services, and the effects of human activity on coastal systems. Our objective was to increase student understanding of seagrass ecosystems and other key…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Natural Resources, Ecology, Environmental Education