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Direct linkMuller, Alexandria; Connolly, Tarah; Skinner, Ron; Harlow, Danielle – Science and Children, 2020
While school field trips are valued as supplementary educational tools, Andersen and Zhang (2003) found that in practice field trips are often treated as one-off learning experiences and not furthered through connections to the classroom curriculum. Although students gain exposure to new phenomena and are able to participate in learning activities…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Field Trips, Learning Activities, Elementary School Students
Ashbrook, Peggy; Nellor, Sue – Science and Children, 2015
Engineering is such a common part of children's work in early childhood programs that teachers can simply look around the room to identify examples where students have engaged in engineering practices. This article presents a classroom activity that integrates engineering design by building on the everyday problems that young children encounter in…
Descriptors: Engineering, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Early Childhood Education
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
Hagen, Patricia; Ingram, Dabney – Science and Children, 2004
Providing sun-safe environments, schedules, and activities; teaching and modeling sun-safe behaviors; and implementing a sun-safe school policy are ways that schools can help protect children from sun overexposure and lay the foundation for a healthy lifestyle at an early age. This article presents the SunWise program and examples of classroom…
Descriptors: School Policy, Child Health, Learning Activities, Class Activities
Download full textArmstrong, Harley; Barna, Carl; Brook, Richard; O'Neill, Mike; Tisdale, Mary – Science and Children, 1997
This document provides teachers and students with the opportunity to learn about the "Bone Wars" of the frontier West, the smartest dinosaur, current hot topics in paleontology research, and how to bring the study of fossils to life with hands-on activities for both the classroom and outdoors. Includes a list of teaching resources. Contains 19…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Dinosaurs, Elementary Secondary Education, Hands on Science
Peer reviewedBall, Daniel W. – Science and Children, 1973
Suggests the technique of brainstorming, in which a group generates spontaneous thoughts regarding how something might be used or how a problem might be solved, as a valuable way to help elementary school children learn science. (JR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary School Science, Group Activities, Instruction
Peer reviewedLittky, Dennis – Science and Children, 1977
Describes an elementary school project of constructing and marketing toys for a profit. (SL)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Curriculum Enrichment, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
Peer reviewedJohns, Alison Fuller – Science and Children, 1993
Describes how photographs of students' faces can be used to produce booklets, posters, and newsletters to enhance science class projects. (PR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Learning Activities
