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Direct linkLehman, James D.; Kim, WooRi; Harris, Constance – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2014
The new standards for K-12 science education in the United States call for science teachers to integrate engineering concepts and practices within their science teaching in order to improve student learning. To accomplish this, teachers need appropriate instructional materials as well as the knowledge and skills to effectively use them. This mixed…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Elementary School Science, Integrated Curriculum, Engineering Technology
Shamos, Morris H.; And Others – 1973
This document is the final report to develop a new elementary science curriculum. It contains information related only to the development phase of the Conceptually Oriented Program in Elementary Science (COPES) and was written for an audience that includes all who are interested in curriculum development as it was experienced in this project. The…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Science
Peer reviewedBarnard, J. Darrell – Science and Children, 1971
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Conceptual Schemes, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Science
Download full textDeVito, Alfred; Norland, Floyd – 1978
A six-year project providing training for prospective elementary school science teachers is described. Phase one, a period of three years, involved a longitudinal study of a pilot group of students as they encountered science content and science teaching methodology, coupled with early and continued field teaching experiences. In the final three…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Discovery Learning, Elementary School Science, Inquiry
McClain, Janis J. – 1972
To further evaluate a method of content analysis and aid in identifying scientific concepts appropriate at the elementary level, science material in a standard textbook series was examined. This paper reports and summarizes the analysis of sections of the California state-adopted textbook series, "Concepts in Science." The conceptual…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Content Analysis, Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary School Science
Bugliarello, George – 1989
This is one of five panel reports that have been prepared as part of the first phase of Project 2061, a long-term, multipurpose undertaking of the American Association for the Advancement of Science designed to help reform science, mathematics, and technology education in the United States. Major sections included are: (1) "Introduction"…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Engineering
Smith, Edward L.; Anderson, Charles W. – 1983
This study is part of a larger study of teachers' use of curriculum materials in planning and teaching fifth-grade science. The study focused on one of nine teachers observed teaching "Communities," an activity-based unit from the SCIIS science program (a revision of the original Science Curriculum Improvement Study).…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biological Sciences, Case Studies, Concept Formation
