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Slisz, Jill – 1989
Science fairs are held in many elementary, junior high, and high schools. Typically they are thought of as a competitive event where students display science projects. Publications occasionally print accounts of successful science fairs, but these articles are usually based on opinions rather than on research. The purpose of this study is to…
Descriptors: Competition, Educational Objectives, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education
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Tal, Tali; Krajcik, Joseph S.; Blumenfeld, Phyllis C. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2006
What teaching practices foster inquiry and promote students to learn challenging subject matter in urban schools? Inquiry-based instruction and successful inquiry learning and teaching in project-based science (PBS) were described in previous studies (Brown & Campione, [1990]; Crawford, [1999]; Krajcik, Blumenfeld, Marx, Bass, & Fredricks,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Urban Teaching, Urban Schools, Science Projects