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Direct linkYing-Chih Chen; Jongchan Park; Jamie G. Rapkiewcz – American Biology Teacher, 2024
Productive struggle is a process in which students expend effort to grapple with perplexing problems and make sense of something that is not immediately apparent and beyond their current level of understanding and capacity. The experience encourages students to reflect on and restructure their existing knowledge toward a new understanding of…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Biology, Science Education, Teaching Methods
Tiffany Fowler – ProQuest LLC, 2024
With the 2015 change in science standards to align more closely with the Next Generation Science Standards, as the district STEM coach, I saw a need for professional development that addressed the lack of understanding and skill needed to teach the Science and Engineering Practices, specifically the practice of Scientific Augmentation. This…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development
He Zhou Breunig – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examines students' social-emotional experience with knowledge building pedagogy from the lenses of grit and growth mindset. The goal of this dissertation is to understand how interest, perseverance of effort and growth mindset oriented feedback engage students social emotionally in knowledge building to sustain and deepen their…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Learner Engagement, Knowledge Level, Skill Development
Fatima Viteri; Monserrath Pazmiño – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2024
This study developed a local climate change curriculum that incorporates generative learning strategies and emphasizes the creation of visually engaging educational content. The curriculum's impact was assessed by examining generative learning through recall and knowledge transfer, as well as declarative knowledge across elementary students with…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Climate, Science Curriculum, Learning Strategies
Stephen A. Biller – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research investigated the impact of a professional development program on enhancing fifth-grade environmental science teacher efficacy through place-based education (PBE) practices--the Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEE) Professional Development Training aimed to promote teacher engagement and increase pedagogical content…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Environmental Education, Elementary School Science, Teacher Effectiveness
Wennersten, Lena; Wanselin, Hanna; Wikman, Susanne; Lindahl, Mats – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
UNESCO has identified education for sustainable development (ESD) as a key factor in the achievement of sustainable development goals (SDGs). Education is important in developing awareness of how to preserve natural ecosystems and promote the uptake of renewable energy sources. Ecology education in primary school aims to give students a scientific…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Science Instruction, Conservation (Environment), Ecology
Download full textKara, Filiz – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2022
The aim of this research is to determine the misconceptions of students about the subject of the moon and to examine the effects of science lesson with reflective science diaries on the achievements of students and eliminating their misconceptions. The research designed according to the pretest-posttest control group model among the experimental…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Diaries
Tseng, Yi-Kuan; Lin, Fan-Sheng; Tarng, Wernhuar; Lu, Yu-Ling; Wang, Tzu-Ling – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2023
Physical and virtual labs have unique capabilities that can influence how students learn from them. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of physical and virtual manipulatives on students' learning of heat and temperature and to examine the influence of various combinations of physical and virtual manipulatives. A total of 205…
Descriptors: Science Laboratories, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students, Computer Simulation
Lederman, Judith S.; Lederman, Norman G.; Bartels, Selina L.; Jimanez, Juan P. – Contributions from Science Education Research, 2019
Although understandings of scientific inquiry (as opposed to conducting inquiry) are included in science education reform documents around the world, little is known about what students have learned about inquiry during their elementary school years. This is partially due to the lack of any assessment instrument to measure understandings about…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Inquiry
Almeida, António; García Fernández, Beatriz; Strecht-Ribeiro, Orlando – Journal of Biological Education, 2020
The present study compared Portuguese and Spanish children in the 6th year of primary school in terms of their knowledge and live experience of animals from the Iberian Peninsula (IP) and the African savannah. A questionnaire was administered to 420 children from state schools, 215 from Portugal and 205 from Spain. The questionnaire included…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Elementary School Science
Lederman, Judith; Lederman, Norman; Bartels, Selina; Jimenez, Juan; Akubo, Mark; Aly, Shereen; Bao, Chengcheng; Blanquet, Estelle; Blonder, Ron; Bologna Soares de Andrade, Mariana; Buntting, Catherine; Cakir, Mustafa; EL-Deghaidy, Heba; ElZorkani, Ahmed; Gaigher, Estelle; Guo, Shuchen; Hakanen, Arvi; Hamed Al-Lal, Soraya; Han-Tosunoglu, Cigdem; Hattingh, Annemarie; Hume, Anne; Irez, Serhat; Kay, Gillian; Kivilcan Dogan, Ozgur; Kremer, Kerstin; Kuo, Pi-Chu; Lavonen, Jari; Lin, Shu-Fen; Liu, Cheng; Liu, Enshan; Liu, Shiang-Yao; Lv, Bin; Mamlok-Naaman, Rachel; McDonald, Christine; Neumann, Irene; Pan, Yaozhen; Picholle, Eric; Rivero García, Ana; Rundgren, Carl-Johan; Santibáñez-Gómez, David; Saunders, Kathy; Schwartz, Renee; Voitle, Frauke; von Gyllenpalm, Jakob; Wei, Fangbing; Wishart, Jocelyn; Wu, Zhifeng; Xiao, Huang; Yalaki, Yalcin; Zhou, Qiaoxue – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
Although understandings of scientific inquiry (as opposed to conducting inquiry) are included in science education reform documents around the world, little is known about what students have learned about inquiry during their elementary school years. This is partially due to the lack of any assessment instrument to measure understandings about…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Middle School Students, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Wenjing Luo – ProQuest LLC, 2019
In 2019, the U.S. is still facing a shortage of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce that is capable of solving social and economic challenges in 21st century worldwide. Numerous studies have explored the influence of integrative STEM approaches on developing student interest and career aspiration in STEM. Building on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Student Interests, Learning Activities, Middle School Students
Qiao, Xiuping; Zhou, Xinyi – Best Evidence in Chinese Education, 2020
Due to the limitation of social economic conditions, the teaching effect of science in rural elementary schools remains unsatisfactory and poorly studied. This research integrates STEM education into rural elementary school science courses to explore whether STEM courses are effective in improving students' knowledge and ability, asking: Are STEM…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students, Grade 5
Zorluoglu, Seraceddin Levent; Güven, Çagri – Journal of Educational Issues, 2020
In this study, the relationship between the levels of 5th grade science course exam questions and the 5th class learning outcomes of the science curriculum in the revised Bloom taxonomy was examined. The research was carried out using document analysis method. Since the revised Bloom taxonomy categories were used for the analysis, the data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 5
Tobin, Roger G.; Lacy, Sara J.; Crissman, Sally – AERA Open, 2021
In spring 2020, COVID-19 seismically shifted the education landscape as schooling moved online. We report a small-scale mixed-methods study of how that upheaval affected three-dimensional science learning in elementary school classrooms, and how the situation changed when school resumed, in modified form, in fall 2020. Teachers with experience in…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Science, COVID-19
