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Download full textVarinlioglu, Serdar; Armagan Fulya Öner; Bektas, Oktay – Journal of Inquiry Based Activities, 2022
This study aims to develop guidance materials on the topic of evaporation and boiling within the Science course, to use the materials with 5th grade students, and to find out the students' opinions about the implementation of these materials. The participants consist of 10 students studying in a public middle school in the 2020-2021 academic year.…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Scientific Concepts, Student Attitudes, Grade 5
Paz, Giovanni Scataglia Botelho; Locatelli, Solange Wagner – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2023
Science education objectives in Brazil have evolved over time. Initially, the focus was on creating scientifically literate citizens who could relate scientific concepts to their daily lives. In 2017, the São Paulo City Curriculum for Natural Sciences was introduced to teach students scientific literacy through inquiry-based teaching methods. This…
Descriptors: Natural Sciences, Science Instruction, Foreign Countries, Science Curriculum
Direct linkÖzkanbas, Müge; Kirik, Özgecan Tastan – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2020
Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL®) as a collaborative inquiry method has been widely used in teaching chemistry to high school and college students. This paper presents the impact of POGIL on 65 middle school students' understanding about nature of matter. It is a quasi-experimental non-equivalent control group design study in which…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Active Learning, Inquiry, Metacognition
James, Angela A.; Beni, Saritha; Stears, Michele – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2019
Background: Foundation phase teachers are not science specialists; however, they are expected to teach science. It is important that research determines where teachers face challenges in teaching science in order to assist them to bridge the gaps and to improve their competence in teaching science. Aim: The aim of this research was to explore…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Curriculum Implementation, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
Charles J. Eick; Michael Dias – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2016
The first author re-entered the middle grades classroom to teach a new National Science Foundation (NSF) physical science curriculum that was designed to foster conceptual change through a scientific approach. The curriculum design met the need and call for reform in science education through its focus on inquiry, evidence-based reasoning, peer…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Science Instruction, Evidence Based Practice, Curriculum Design
Gokalp, Muhammed Sait; Sharma, Manjula; Johnston, Ian; Sharma, Mia – Teaching Science, 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate how WebQuests can be used in physics classes for teaching specific concepts. The study had three stages. The first stage was to develop a WebQuest on Newton's second law. The second stage involved developing a lesson plan to implement the WebQuest in class. In the final stage, the WebQuest was…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Curriculum Implementation, Investigations, Physics
