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Poitras, Eric; Butcher, Kirsten R.; Orr, Matthew; Hudson, Michelle A.; Larson, Madlyn – Interactive Learning Environments, 2022
This study mined student interactions with visual representations as a means to automate assessment of learning in a complex, inquiry-based learning environment. Log trace data of 143 middle school students' interactions with an interactive map in Research Quest (an inquiry-based, online learning environment) were analyzed. Students used the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Electronic Learning, Maps, Science Instruction
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Vitale, Jonathan M.; Applebaum, Lauren; Linn, Marcia C. – Cognition and Instruction, 2019
Graphs illustrating complex scientific relationships require students to integrate multiple concepts and visual features into a coherent understanding. We investigate ways to support students in integrating their understanding of density concepts through a graph that is linked to a simulation depicting the relationship between mass, volume, and…
Descriptors: Graphs, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Grade 8
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Munn, Carol – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2021
This paper explores Computational Thinking (CT) through the experiences and interactions of sixth-grade students as they were engaging in a science lesson utilizing robotics. This robotics unit institutes the shifting from traditional to engaging hands-on activities coupled with CT skills that are exciting, intriguing, and inviting to students.…
Descriptors: Robotics, Grade 6, Units of Study, Science Instruction
Munn, Carol A. – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This research study explored robotics as the catalyst for computational thinking (CT) by sixth-grade students as they are engaged in a science lesson. The interactions, understandings, and applications are discussed, along with the participants' connections and implementations of CT concepts (decomposition, abstraction, pattern recognition, and…
Descriptors: Robotics, Grade 6, Units of Study, Science Instruction
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Basawapatna, Ashok – Educational Technology & Society, 2016
Simulation and modeling activities, a key point of computational thinking, are currently not being integrated into the science classroom. This paper describes a new visual programming tool entitled the Simulation Creation Toolkit. The Simulation Creation Toolkit is a high level pattern-based phenomenological approach to bringing rapid simulation…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Computer Simulation, Thinking Skills, Programming
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Sharma, Ajay – Science Education, 2008
Students studying in government-run schools in rural India possess much experiential knowledge of the world around them. This paper presents a narrative account of an ethnographic exploration of such students as they attempted to learn about electricity in an eighth-grade classroom in a government-run school in a village in India. The paper shows…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Energy