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Allison M. Esparza; Kenneth Fleming Jr.; Henan Zhang; Huiwen Pang; Cindy Guerrero; Rafael Lara-Alecio; Beverly J. Irby; Fuhui Tong – Discover Education, 2023
The 2019 science results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress showed that 8th-grade students, especially economically challenged and emergent bilingual students, made few gains in science and reading achievement. Researchers have found that scientific language may be a significant barrier to student comprehension. Researchers have…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Grade 7, Teaching Methods, Science Teachers
Brucke, Candice Yarbray – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Middle school math students are underperforming on teacher-created assessments and assignments, state assessments, and nationally normed assessments, such as the Measures of Academic Performance (MAP) and the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP). Only 35.7% of sixth graders in South Carolina scored "meets or exceeds…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Instruction, Childrens Literature
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Laura Fattal; Lynn Needle – Journal of Dance Education, 2024
Climate change is a contemporary global crisis that necessitates pedagogical innovation for the middle school dance classroom. This article describes an integrated design for a dance and science unit. Building on students' kinesthetic abilities, teachers are able to create a unit comprising a series of lessons on bird migrations effected by…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Dance Education, Middle School Students, Elementary School Science
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Rachel N. Arbor; Kevin Matteson – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Amidst increasing concerns about children's mental health, this paper explores the integration of interdisciplinary nature journaling within a middle school English Language Arts classroom as a method to enhance student well-being and environmental literacy. 61 5th-7th students in Garrison, NY engaged in a 75-minute nature journaling activity. We…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Mental Health, Student Journals, Naturalistic Observation
Curtis, Reagan; Cairns, Darran R.; Bolyard, Johnna J. – Teachers College Press, 2023
Too often, mathematics and science are taught in isolation from each other and from meaningful problems that matter to students. This book draws on the authors' experiences with teacher colleagues, including time spent in their classrooms co-developing and refining lessons. The core of their approach is to encourage learners to pursue solutions to…
Descriptors: Design, Thinking Skills, Evidence Based Practice, Mathematics Instruction
Kaitlin Burris – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Over the last three years, there have been changes in education such a curriculum, culture, and purpose that has encouraged educators to become more collaborative and modify traditional classroom method of one educator working in isolation to a more team-teaching process. The purpose of this study was to investigate the experiences of teachers…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Teaching Methods, Secondary Education, Instructional Design
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Buket Turhan-Türkkan; Betül Karaduman; Nihan Arslan-Namli; Memet Karakus – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2024
The purpose of this research was to identify the need for gender equality education. For this purpose, the views of mathematics, science, and information technology teachers on the current situation of gender equality in schools were determined. In addition, the awareness of sixth, seventh and eighth grade middle school students on gender equality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Needs Assessment, Sex Fairness
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Golnaz Arastoopour Irgens; Danielle Herro; Ashton Fisher; Ibrahim Adisa; Oluwadara Abimbade – Journal of Experimental Education, 2024
The importance of data literacies and the shortage of research surrounding data science in elementary schools motivated this research-practice partnership (RPP) between researchers and teachers from a STEM elementary school. We used a narrative case study methodology to describe the instructional practices of one music teacher who co-designed a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Grade 5, Music Teachers, Music Education
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Valentine Ukachukwu Okwara – Educational Research: Theory and Practice, 2024
Understanding ecological concepts is crucial in tackling environmental issues like climate change, pollution, and habitat destruction. These concepts also serve as a teaching framework, encouraging learners to effect positive change. This research was conducted with grade 9 learners from three schools in Bloemfontein, South Africa, randomly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Environmental Education, Climate
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Sushma Sardana; Alka Muddgal – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
Context-based STEM learning has been proven to be useful as interdisciplinary storylines to regulate the flow and sequencing of lessons to obtain expected outcomes. This case study pilot project aims to contextualise scientific learning to local culture. Student groups sampled from two schools in distinct social backgrounds, reflected varied…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Preservice Teachers
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Meagan Dissinger – Journal of General Music Education, 2024
Students who enter middle school may discover few or no opportunities for music participation beyond the Western ensemble paradigm. However, the explorative experiences of elementary general music can continue to thrive in middle school classroom music. In order for middle school classroom music programs to maximize potential, they must be valued…
Descriptors: Music Education, Middle School Students, Self Concept, Teaching Methods
Elissa Milto; Chelsea Andrews; Merredith Portsmore; Christopher Wright – Eye on Education, 2025
"Introducing Engineering to K-8 Students" will provide you with the tools you need to incorporate engineering design into your classroom. Rather than prescribing a specific curriculum to follow, this book will help you engage your students with hands-on, open-ended engineering design problems that can be easily integrated into your…
Descriptors: Engineering, Design, Middle School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
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Driessen, Emily P.; Wilhelm, Jennifer; Cole, Merryn; Dunn, Ashley; Anderson, Kameisha – Journal of Educational Research, 2023
K-12 science teachers in the United States are encouraged to teach their students engineering. When incorporating engineering into their science curricula, teachers commonly either focus on: (1) engineering and lace science throughout; or (2) science and lace engineering throughout. This study explores middle school students' nature of engineering…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Engineering Education, Science Curriculum, Student Attitudes
Lisa Paris; Geoffrey Lowe; Christina Gray; Angela Perry; Lara Warwick – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2025
There is growing recognition of the value of the Arts in helping shape understandings and capabilities for life essential for meeting the challenges of the 21st century. Consequently, in Australia, the Arts are now mandated for all students from kindergarten to year 9. In the lower secondary setting, this has led to a high demand for educators…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Teachers, Middle School Students, Art Education
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Kimberly E. Beck; Jessica F. Shumway; Patrick Ocran; Jody Clarke-Midura; Mimi Recker – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2025
Expansive Framing (EF) is a theory and an instructional technique to facilitate connections between content and contexts. We employed EF as an approach to create a series of integrated mathematics and computer science (CS) lessons, using digital technology as a tool to leverage shared mathematical and computational ideas. We used deductive…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Computer Science Education, Grade 5, Elementary School Teachers
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