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Direct linkGur Arie Livni Alcasid; Michal Haskel-Ittah – Research in Science Education, 2025
Mechanistic explanations, aiming to disclose details of entities and their activities, employ the act of unpacking which, inherently and paradoxically, produces explanatory gaps--pieces of undisclosed, undetailed mechanistic information. These gaps, termed explanatory black boxes, are often perceived as counterproductive to the teaching of…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Biology, Teacher Attitudes
Sedawi, W.; Assaraf, O. Ben Zvi; Reiss, M. J. – Research in Science Education, 2021
This study examines the effects of a place-based intervention program on the sense of place of Bedouin elementary school students. These students live on the banks of the polluted Hebron Stream in Israel, where a three-pronged restoration program has recently been established, including the stream's rehabilitation, the establishment of local waste…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Place Based Education, Intervention, Elementary School Students
Sadeh, Irit; Zion, Michal – Research in Science Education, 2012
In teaching inquiry to high school students, educators differ on which method of teaching inquiry is more effective: Guided or open inquiry? This paper examines the influence of these two different inquiry learning approaches on the attitudes of Israeli high school biology students toward their inquiry project. The results showed significant…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Biology, Teaching Methods, Inquiry
Cohen, Rachel; Yarden, Anat – Research in Science Education, 2009
In the new science and technology junior-high-school curriculum in Israel, it is recommended that the cell topic be taught "longitudinally in conjunction with other study contents". This recommendation confers a change in teaching the cell topic and provides an opportunity to form meaningful relationships between biological phenomena at…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Focus Groups, Biology, Foreign Countries
Zion, Michal; Cohen, Smadar; Amir, Ruth – Research in Science Education, 2007
The Israeli high school biology curriculum comprises the Biomind program, in which students are engaged in an open inquiry learning process. The dynamic features of open inquiry often pose challenges to teachers in implementing the Biomind program. The current qualitative research shows that facilitating students in a dynamic open inquiry process…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Biology, Qualitative Research, Inquiry
Tal, Revital (Tali); Argaman, Sarit – Research in Science Education, 2005
The paper describes characteristics and analyses difficulties of environmental sciences teachers in mentoring their students in an extended inquiry project, which is a mandatory requirement of the environmental sciences matriculation in Israel. The teachers participated in a professional development program that provided both content knowledge and…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Mentors, Science Projects, Foreign Countries
