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Li, Mingyang; Donnelly-Hermosillo, Dermot Francis; Click, Jennifer – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2022
Numerous studies illustrate the value of simulations or project-based learning approaches to enhance the learning of science. Simulations can help students connect across macroscopic, microscopic, and symbolic representations of scientific phenomena, while project-based learning can provide a meaningful narrative and activities for students to…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Sequential Approach, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
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Hestness, Emily; McGinnis, J. Randy; Breslyn, Wayne; McDonald, R. Christopher; Mouza, Chrystalla – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2017
In the context of a weeklong summer professional development program focused on climate change education, we conducted a qualitative case study investigating how science educators' understandings of learning progressions (LPs) informed their ideas about climate change teaching practice. Participants (N = 27) in the Climate Academy were middle…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Climate, Faculty Development
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Skoumios, Michael; Hatsinikita, Vassilia – Themes in Science and Technology Education, 2008
The present paper aims at investigating the structure and the content of the written explanations produced by primary school pupils' aged 11-12) during teaching sequences focused on the didactic elaboration of obstacles regarding temperature and heat. At first, teaching sequences targeted at the pupils' destabilising, restructuring, and…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Concept Teaching, Science Instruction, Sequential Approach