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Driessen, Emily P.; Wilhelm, Jennifer; Cole, Merryn; Dunn, Ashley; Anderson, Kameisha – Journal of Educational Research, 2023
K-12 science teachers in the United States are encouraged to teach their students engineering. When incorporating engineering into their science curricula, teachers commonly either focus on: (1) engineering and lace science throughout; or (2) science and lace engineering throughout. This study explores middle school students' nature of engineering…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Engineering Education, Science Curriculum, Student Attitudes
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Guzey, S. Selcen; Moore, Tamara J.; Harwell, Michael; Moreno, Mario – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2016
In many countries around the world, there has been an increasing emphasis on improving science education. Recent reform efforts in the USA call for teachers to integrate scientific and engineering practices into science teaching; for example, science teachers are asked to provide learning experiences for students that apply crosscutting concepts…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Middle School Students, Grade 7, Biological Sciences
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Assaraf, Orit Ben-Zvi; Orion, Nir – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2009
This article presents a model for the development of an environmentally oriented unit designed to be implemented as an integral part of the science core curriculum. The program's main goal is encouraging students at the junior high-school level to develop systems-thinking and environmental insight as a basis for environmental literacy. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Urban Schools, Core Curriculum
Goldenberg, Lauren B.; Heinze, Juliette; Ba, Harouna – Education Development Center, Inc., 2004
The JASON Multimedia Science Curriculum (JMSC) was developed in 1989 by the JASON Foundation for Education (www.jason.org), and is a multimedia, interdisciplinary, inquiry-based science curriculum that responds to the dual demands of teachers having to teach state standards while engaging students in scientific inquiry. The JMSC encourages…
Descriptors: State Standards, Computer Uses in Education, Computer Simulation, Science Curriculum