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Cardoso, Lurdes – 2002
The purpose of this paper is to present an ethnographic study (Cardoso, 1999) involving six primary school pupils and doing simple experiments with everyday home equipment in the context of learning science. The hands-on science activities were carried out by children with the help of their parents. Results showed that children learnt at home and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Family Environment, Foreign Countries, Hands on Science

Wulfsberg, Gary – Journal of Chemical Education, 1983
Describes a series of laboratory experiments designed to provide concrete experiences with advanced inorganic chemistry lecture topics. Stresses student invention of chemical relationships and periodicity according to physical properties and reaction type. Includes comments on student performance and attitudes toward the experiments. (JM)
Descriptors: Chemical Reactions, Chemistry, Cognitive Development, College Science
Haslam, Filocha; Gunstone, Richard – 1998
This study investigates the ideas and beliefs of a small group of high school science teachers about student observations in the science classroom. Student views on science classroom observations have been previously reported on, but teachers and their students' ideas about observation is a very little researched area in science education. There…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Foreign Countries, High School Students, Learning Processes
Westbrook, Susan L.; Rogers, Laura N. – 1991
A study was designed to test the hypothesis that a descriptive-type learning cycle was insufficient to stimulate students to reason at a reflective level or to develop an understanding of, and facility with, the processes of scientific investigation. In order to test the hypothesis, four classes of ninth-grade physical science students (n=100)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Critical Thinking, Grade 9, High Schools

Fleener, M. Jayne; And Others – 1993
Higher order cognitive development and success in the study of high school mathematics and science require an understanding of rational number concepts and facility with proportional reasoning and computation. Proportional reasoning is an essential schema for developing formal operational thought. This study involving 16 ninth-grade students was…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Algorithms, Cognitive Development, Formal Operations