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Beyond "Yelling at Them": Exploring the Impact of a Political Simulation in Polarized Times
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Jeremy Stoddard; Jais Brohinsky; Jason A. Chen; Derek Behnke; M. Shane Tutwiler; Janice Robbins – Grantee Submission, 2025
This paper explores how PurpleState, a political simulation designed to foster skills and knowledge for informed civic participation, develops students' abilities to counter or resist the effects of political polarization and partisanship. Throughout the simulation, which has been implemented in Virginia and Wisconsin, students are asked to…
Descriptors: Simulation, Political Attitudes, Political Science, Teaching Methods
Mind the Gap: Investigating the Design and Learning Affordances of Agent-Based Participatory Simulations in Changing People's Perceptions and Beliefs toward Economic Inequality
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Guo, Yu – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Economic inequality has reached historically high levels in both the United States and in the world. The research literature in sociology and political science has long shown that individuals tend to be very persistent in their views on the determinants of economic success, although these views may be formed on cultural and cognitive biases. For…
Descriptors: Affordances, Instructional Effectiveness, Computer Simulation, Role Playing
Students' Situational Interest in Cultivated Plants: The Importance of Contextualisation and Topic Selection
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Hammann, Marcus; Jördens, Janina; Büschgens, Désirée – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Student interest in plants is lacking. Therefore, we investigated potential drivers of situational interest in cultivated plants and interactions between different dimensions of interest, i.e. topic, context and learning activity. A total of 462 high school students (14-17 years of age) rated two sets of questionnaire items combining eight plants…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), Horticulture, Student Interests, Context Effect
Should Teachers Help Students Develop Partisan Identities?
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Hess, Diana E.; McAvoy, Paula – Social Education, 2014
Five years ago, Diana Hess was teaching a graduate seminar called "Democratic Education." The purpose of the seminar was to critically analyze two seemingly simple, but actually very complex, questions: What is democracy? What is democratic education? Both are contested concepts, and the seminar was designed to help students understand…
Descriptors: Simulation, Legislation, Political Affiliation, Political Attitudes
Exploring Contemporary Issues in Genetics & Society: Karyotyping, Biological Sex, & Gender
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Brown, Julie C. – American Biology Teacher, 2013
In this two-part activity, high school biology students examine human karyotyping, sex-chromosome-linked disorders, and the relationship between biological sex and gender. Through interactive simulations and a structured discussion lab, students create a human karyotype and diagnose chromosomal disorders in hypothetical patients, as well as…
Descriptors: Genetics, Controversial Issues (Course Content), High School Students, Biology
Approaches and Strategies in Next Generation Science Learning
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Khine, Myint Swe, Ed.; Saleh, Issa M., Ed. – IGI Global, 2013
"Approaches and Strategies in Next Generation Science Learning" examines the challenges involved in the development of modern curriculum models, teaching strategies, and assessments in science education in order to prepare future students in the 21st century economies. This comprehensive collection of research brings together science educators,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Education, Physical Sciences, Learning Theories