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Kim, Dongryeul – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2023
This study intended to confirm differences in peer relations between inquisitive and noninquisitive experiment class through social network analysis. In this study, inquiry science experiment classes for 30 students and noninquiry science experiment classes for different 30 students in the chapter named ‚Animals and Energy? of the second year of…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Middle School Students, Grade 6, Foreign Countries
Erica Darken; Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau; Mark Hauber; Jie Park – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2024
This collaboratively authored piece highlights Poetry Inside Out, a poetry translation program that creates new pathways for culturally and linguistically sustaining literacy education. In Poetry Inside Out, students collaborate to translate world-class poems from their original language (e.g., Spanish, Chinese) into English. Informing PIO's…
Descriptors: Poetry, Translation, Literacy, Inquiry
Berika Kansoy, Merve; Sert Çibik, Ayse – Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2022
This study aims to examine the effects of inquiry activities supported by digital storytelling on the attitudes of 6th-grade students towards inquiry, sub-dimensions of attitudes, and the change of attitudes depending on gender. The method of the study was determined as the embedded design, one of the mixed method research designs. The study was…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Story Telling, Grade 6, Student Attitudes
Burt, Kate G.; Burgermaster, Marissa; D'Alessandro, Dina; Paul, Rachel; Stopler, Marina – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2020
We compared 2014-15 New York State Science Assessment scores of fourth grade students who received the New York Sun Works (NYSW) Program (n = 638) with two comparison groups: students who received NYSW the following year (n = 993) and students attending matched schools (n = 1490). We first applied a multi-level regression model to compare scores…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Climate, Gardening
Nurazidawati Mohamad Arsad; Kamisah Osman; Marlissa Omar; Nur Suhaidah Sukor – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
The aim of this research is to determine the effectiveness of the STEM Kid Module on the scientific literacy of fifth-grade students in the 'Energy' topic. The module was developed based on the combination of constructivism and constructionism as a fundamental learning theory. Meanwhile, the STEM Kid instructional phase was formed using a STEM…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, STEM Education, Units of Study, Academic Achievement
Nesimyan-Agadi, Dina; Assaraf, Orit Ben Zvi – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2022
Informal learning environments such as Natural History Museums can introduce visitors to a variety of topics in evolution by providing accessible representations of concepts like geological time, evolutionary mechanisms, biological diversity, geological time, and fossil dating. Our study examined sixth-grade students' conceptualization of…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Extracurricular Activities, Enrichment Activities, Authentic Learning
Damon L. Bahr; Erin Feinauer Whiting; Cade T. Charlton – Preventing School Failure, 2024
The study described in this paper investigated a unique collaboration among a special education and two general educators that sought to prepare students for success in the general education mathematics curriculum and that consisted of coordinated, reform-based instructional design across classroom and pull-out services provided by the special…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Special Education Teachers, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Readiness
Chen, Jyun-Chen – Interactive Learning Environments, 2022
"Learning by doing" involves completing a practice activity through the method of inquiry. This study combined the predict-observe-explain (POE) inquiry method and hands-on doing processes to develop a cycle-mode POED (predict-observe-explain-do) model with an e-learning system to help students complete a practice activity using…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Prediction, Observation, Hands on Science
Gao, Xuemin; Hew, Khe Foon – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2022
Computational thinking (CT) has attracted significant interest among many educators around the globe. Despite this growing interest, research on CT and programming education in elementary school remains at an initial stage. Many relevant studies have adopted only one type of method to assess students' CT, which may lead to an incomplete view of…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Computation, Flipped Classroom, Elementary School Students
Schiefer, Julia; Golle, Jessika; Tibus, Maike; Herbein, Evelin; Gindele, Verena; Trautwein, Ulrich; Oschatz, Kerstin – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Background: Further developing students' thinking about knowledge and knowing in science (epistemic beliefs) is considered a normative goal of science education in many countries around the world, even for elementary-school-aged children. Aims: The goal of the present study was to introduce and evaluate a new intervention in science education…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Science Activities, Intervention, Elementary School Students
Schiefer, Julia; Stark, Lucas; Gaspard, Hanna; Wille, Eike; Trautwein, Ulrich; Golle, Jessika – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
The promotion of an adequate understanding of science is a central goal of science education, even in elementary school. In this study, we analyzed the effects of a recently developed science intervention program aimed at fostering the understanding of science as well as the motivation of elementary school--aged boys and girls. In prior research,…
Descriptors: Science Activities, Extracurricular Activities, Science Education, Elementary School Students
Demir, Meral; Soytürk, Mümine; Öztürk, Özden Tepeköylü – Journal of Educational Issues, 2020
The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of inquiry-based instruction in the teaching of fundamental movement skills to fifth-grade students on the children's perceived motor competence. Utilizing a post-test experimental design with control group, the study was carried out with 260 fifth-grade students studying in ten different classes…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Basic Skills, Psychomotor Skills, Movement Education
Kaderavek, Joan N.; Paprzycki, Peter; Czerniak, Charlene M.; Hapgood, Susanna; Mentzer, Gale; Molitor, Scott; Mendenhall, Robert – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
This study investigated if student placement in a primary grade 1-3 classroom with a teacher who had been trained in a U.S. science Framework-aligned [National Research Council. (2012). "A framework for K-12 science education: Practices, crosscutting concepts and core ideas." The National Academies Press] professional development science…
Descriptors: Early Experience, Science Instruction, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
Simms, Wendy; Shanahan, Marie-Claire – Environmental Education Research, 2019
As environmental and sustainability issues are becoming embedded in the school curriculum, there is a need to understand how environmental identity develops within the complex social structure of the classroom. Reflection is a potentially valuable classroom process to consider as it intersects student learning, identity work, and agency. This…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Sustainability, Reflection, Teaching Methods
Abdusselam, Mustafa Serkan; Kilis, Selcan – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2021
This study aims to develop and evaluate an augmented reality microscope, "MicrosAR", for a middle school Science course, which was aimed for use both in and out of school, and to understand the users' perceptions about it. The study adopted design-based research to iteratively develop and evaluate the MicrosAR. Learning activities and…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, Middle School Students, Laboratory Equipment