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Elmas, Ridvan; Aydogdu, Bülent; Saban, Yakup – International Education Studies, 2017
This study has two primary objectives. The first one is preparation of an efficient review book including a series of activities, which will help fourth grade students exercise what they learned in the elementary science course in a year. The second objective is examination of the prepared book in the framework of student and teacher opinions. In…
Descriptors: Retention (Psychology), Grade 4, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Jackson, Julie; Allen, Gayle; Dickinson, Gail – Science and Children, 2008
Making connections is always an important task for teachers. Science teachers are encouraged to connect new learning with students' prior knowledge, learning with student interests, learning with cultural experiences, and classroom activities across academic disciplines. Strategies that facilitate these connections help teachers enrich and enhance…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Learning Activities, Student Interests, Academic Achievement
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Milner, Joseph O.; Milner, Margie M. – Reading Psychology, 2008
Jedediah Purdy's (2000) "For common things" laments the ironic mode of thought that characterizes our culture's mindset. He calls for a return to devotion, homage, and allegiance rather than what he sees as a jaundiced detachment that has overcome us. Purdy may be on to something, but Alexandra Day (1985) does not seem to adopt his call to a…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Emergent Literacy, Beginning Reading, Literature Reviews