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Embedding Sustainability Instruction across Content Areas: Best Classroom Practices from Informal Environmental Education
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Walker, Ryan; Clary, Renee M.; Wissehr, Cathy – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2017
Environmental education (EE) facilitates students' scientific and environmental literacy, and addresses content areas including sustainability, ecology, and civic responsibility. However, U.S. science content compartmentalization and EE's interdisciplinary nature historically made it a fragmented curriculum within U.S. schools. To gain a better…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainability, Teaching Methods, Ecology
An Example of Using History of Mathematics in Classes
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Goktepe, Sevda; Ozdemir, Ahmet Sukru – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2013
In recent years, the topic of integrating history to mathematics lessons in teaching-learning processes has been frequently discussed among researchers. The main aim of this study is to present an example activity which enriched with history of mathematics and to take the views of students about teaching course in this way. In addition, to create…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, History Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, Case Studies
The "Function-to-Flow" Model: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Assessing Movement within and beyond the Context of Climbing
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Lloyd, Rebecca – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2015
Background: Physical Education (PE) programmes are expanding to include alternative activities yet what is missing is a conceptual model that facilitates how the learning process may be understood and assessed beyond the dominant sport-technique paradigm. Purpose: The purpose of this article was to feature the emergence of a Function-to-Flow (F2F)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Physical Activities, Learning Processes
Fostering an Adolescent-Centered Community Responsive to Student Needs: Lessons Learned and Suggestions for Middle Level Educators
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Ellerbock, Cheryl R.; Kiefer, Sarah M. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2014
Young adolescents have unique basic and developmental needs. Middle level educators are best able to reach and teach young adolescents when they understand students' needs and when the school environment, including its organizational structures and teacher practices, are responsive to these needs. Findings from a recently conducted qualitative…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Student Needs, Middle School Teachers
Effects of an Integrated Science and Societal Implication Intervention on Promoting Adolescents' Positive Thinking and Emotional Perceptions in Learning Science
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Hong, Zuway R.; Lin, Huann-Shyang; Lawrenz, Frances P. – International Journal of Science Education, 2012
The goal of this study was to test the effectiveness of integrating science and societal implication on adolescents' positive thinking and emotional perceptions about learning science. Twenty-five eighth-grade Taiwanese adolescents (9 boys and 16 girls) volunteered to participate in a 12-week intervention and formed the experimental group.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Intervention, Adolescents, Experimental Groups
Connected Coaching: How Three Middle School Teachers Responded to the Challenge to Integrate Social Studies and Literacy
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Binkley, Russell; Keiser, Megan; Strahan, David – Journal of Social Studies Research, 2011
This study examined three teachers' responses to professional development initiatives designed to support them in integrating literacy strategies with their social studies curriculum. Data from participant observation, interviews, archival records, and email exchanges provided insights regarding participants' efforts to weave together literacy…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Language Arts, Grade 8, Grade 7