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Integrating the Plate Tectonic and Rock Genesis Systems for Secondary School Students
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Amy Pallant; Christopher Lore; Hee-Sun Lee; Stephanie Seevers; Trudi Lord – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2025
This paper describes how plate tectonics and rock genesis, two topics that are typically addressed separately in secondary Earth science classes, can be taught together as an integrated system. We define the TecRocks Reasoning Framework, developed to support student reasoning about rock formation situated in the context of plate tectonics. We also…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Secondary School Students, Geology, Plate Tectonics
Games-Based Learning as an Interdisciplinary Approach to Literacy across Curriculum for Excellence
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O'Donnell, Hugh – Online Submission, 2015
Literacy remains an area of concern in early secondary education in Scotland (ages 12-14), with recent research suggesting a continued decline in attainment levels. As literacy underpins learning, interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches to teaching literacy are now being emphasized through the new Curriculum for Excellence that aims to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Games, Computer Simulation, Astronomy
The Systems Thinking and Curriculum Innovation Project. Technical Report, Part 1.
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Mandinach, Ellen B.; Thorpe, Margaret E. – 1987
This document reports on the first year of the STACI (Systems Thinking and Curriculum Innovation) project, a two-year project which is examining the cognitive demands and consequences of using the STELLA (Structural Thinking Experimental Learning Laboratory with Animation) software to teach systems thinking, content knowledge, and problem solving.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Simulation, Computer Software, Curriculum Development
The Systems Thinking and Curriculum Innovation Project. Technical Report, Part 2.
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Mandinach, Ellen B.; Thorpe, Margaret E. – 1988
This is the second of two reports on the first year activities and results of the Systems Thinking and Curriculum Innovation Project (STACI), a two-year project which is examining the cognitive demands and consequences of using the STELLA (Structural Thinking Experimental Learning Laboratory with Animation) software to teach systems thinking,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests, Comparative Analysis
Model-Building and the Use of Computer Simulation of Dynamic Systems.
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Mandinach, Ellen B. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1989
Describes the Systems Thinking and Curriculum Innovation (STACI) Project, which is examining the impact of a technology-based curriculum innovation on teaching and learning outcomes in high school science and social studies. Systems thinking is discussed, simulation-modeling software is described, and implications for technology in educational…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Courseware, Curriculum Development
Have More Fun Teaching Physics: Simulating, Stimulating Software.
Jenkins, Doug – MultiMedia Schools, 1996
High school physics offers opportunities to use problem solving and lab practices as well as cement skills in research, technical writing, and software applications. Describes and evaluates computer software enhancing the high school physics curriculum including spreadsheets for laboratory data, all-in-one simulators, projectile motion simulators,…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Computer Simulation, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Uses in Education