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Direct linkKeisha Varma – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
Increasingly, research on cognition, learning, and education seeks to understand the cognitive processes underlying conceptual understanding. This is especially true for efforts to understand how students learn science. The present case summarizes work that examines 6- to 10-year-old students engage in scientific reasoning to learn new scientific…
Descriptors: Science Process Skills, Thinking Skills, Elementary School Students, Abstract Reasoning
Charner, Kathy, Ed. – 1998
This book presents science activities developed by teachers for children ages 3-6 years old. The activities aim to develop science skills including communication, observation, estimation, measurement, cause and effect, investigation, and evaluation in children by using their curiosity as a staring point. Activities include age suggestions, address…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Science Activities, Science Experiments, Science Instruction
Strongin, Herb; And Others – 1991
Often elementary and junior high teachers search for effective, inexpensive, and easy-to-understand science activities. This document was designed with those teachers and their students in mind. It provides hands-on science activities that focus around three components: (1) themes--broad, unifying ideas that pervade science, math and technology;…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Energy, Hands on Science, Junior High Schools
Download full textGott, Richard; Duggan, Sandra – 1995
Teaching is essentially a personal and professional business in which lively, thinking, enthusiastic teachers continue to analyze their own activities and mediate the curriculum framework to their students. This book aims at encouraging teachers and curriculum developers to continue to rethink how science and technology should be taught in…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Investigations
Pauker, Robert A.; Roy, Kenneth Russell – 1993
Science process skills such as observing, classifying, inferring, interpreting, predicting, and hypothesizing can all be classified as a sub category of thinking skills. This book is part of the series "Strategies for Learning" that focuses on the step-by-step development and application of thinking skills as a vehicle for learning science. The…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Demonstrations (Science), Elementary Secondary Education, Hands on Science
Pauker, Robert A.; Roy, Kenneth Russell – 1991
Science process skills such as observing, classifying, inferring, interpreting, predicting, and hypothesizing can all be classified as a sub category of thinking skills. This book is part of the series "Strategies for Learning" that focuses on the step-by-step development and application of thinking skills as a vehicle for learning science. The…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Demonstrations (Science)
