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David Menendez – Grantee Submission, 2023
During instruction, students are typically presented with new information through several modalities, such as through language and images. Students need to attend to these different modalities and integrate the information in both in order to learn and generalize from instruction. Many studies have shown that the features of each modality, such as…
Descriptors: Learning Modalities, Multimedia Instruction, Generalization, Cues
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David Menendez – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
During instruction, students are typically presented with new information through several modalities, such as language and images. Students need to attend to these different modalities and integrate the information in both in order to learn and generalize from instruction. Many studies have shown that the features of each modality, such as the use…
Descriptors: Learning Modalities, Multimedia Instruction, Generalization, Cues
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Timoštšuk, Inge; Lumi, Neeme – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2022
It is important to be able to make better informed decisions about issues such as sustainability and climate change that have both personal and global impact as early as possible in life. Primary teachers have a significant role in supporting students' learning and understanding of these concepts. One important teaching skill that needs to be…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Models
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Johnson, Virginia – Science and Children, 1978
The right brain hemisphere is concerned with sensory learning, including creativity, intuitiveness, and metaphors. This article gives two science activities designed to stimulate the right brain function and to motivate elementary students. The two activities concern batteries and metamorphosis, and each includes the concept, story (fantasy),…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Creative Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
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Stronck, David R. – American Biology Teacher, 1980
The author discusses various ways that children differ biologically and relates these to their needs during the learning process. Tutoring, individual inquiry, and mastery learning are included in the discussion. (SA)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Style, Discovery Learning, Elementary Education
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Lawrenz, Frances; Lawson, Anton E. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1986
Presents study findings which explored the effect of teacher reasoning level and teaching style preference on improvement in student-reasoning ability. Reports that students of concrete operational teachers and of inquiry teachers showed greater gains in reasoning ability than students of formal operational teachers and of expository teachers. (ML)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Elementary Education
Werner, Peter H.; Burton, Elsie C. – 1979
Action-oriented learning activities are focused on in this book which attempts to outline an approach for stimulating and motivating children to learn through movement. The book is divided into five parts, each dealing with an aspect of the elementary school curriculum. Part one is concerned with the language arts and is divided into three…
Descriptors: Art Education, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Language Arts
Cascadden, Tracey E.; Tull, Debra S.; Wood, Marcy B. – 1999
This paper describes the philosophy, implementation, and assessment of the Natural Sciences (NatSci) Program at the University of New Mexico which is designed to provide preservice elementary and middle school teachers with the understanding of science content and processes necessary to teach science confidently and competently in their future…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Constructivism (Learning), Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
Lobb, Nancy; Roderman, Winifred Ho – 1982
The Science in Action series is designed to teach practical science concepts to special-needs students. It is intended to develop students' problem-solving skills by teaching them to observe, record, analyze, conclude, and predict. This document contains a student workbook which deals with basic principles of life science. Six separate units…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Biology, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education
Myers, Robert E. – 1998
The activities in this book were designed to encourage students to perceive what is going on around them, to be both receptive to and critical of the ideas of others, to analyze problems, to elaborate upon ideas, to explore possibilities, and to see relationships. The activities call for all 18 of E. Paul Torrance's creative thinking abilities.…
Descriptors: Art, Class Activities, Cognitive Style, Creative Thinking