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Download full textTracey-Ann Palmer; Emily Booth – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2024
This literature review offers compelling evidence for the significant role music and song can play in cultivating student engagement in elementary school science lessons. With students disengaging from science education, there is concern about the lack of necessary scientific literacy skills required in today's world. To explore whether music and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Science Instruction, Singing, Music
Direct linkSimon Langlois; Nathan Béchard; Guillaume Poliquin; Stéphane Cyr; Patrice Potvin – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2024
Integrating science and mathematics in the elementary classroom is a significant challenge, as evidenced by the few convincing examples currently available in the scholarly literature. Yet, this integration is often seen as presenting epistemological and pedagogical value. This study aims to measure the impact of science and mathematics (S&M)…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Science, Integrated Curriculum
Stefanie L. Marshall; Jessica Forrester; Jenny Tilsen – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
Transformational equity-centered science education requires the fields of science education and school leadership to critically consider the limited preparation elementary principals are offered to lead for science education. Thus far, little effort has been made to foster a transdisciplinary curricula beyond traditional organizational theories…
Descriptors: Principals, Elementary Schools, Elementary Education, Science Education
Fearn, Warren; Hook, Jonathan – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2023
It has previously been argued that Augmented Reality (AR) has the potential to provide relevant digital information to support pupils learning in real-time through engaging formats. However, the use of AR in the classroom remains uncommon for mainstream adoption. This study uses a service design methodology to focus on a more holistic approach…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Educational Technology, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
Schellinger, Jennifer; Jaber, Lama Z.; Southerland, Sherry A. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2022
Science reforms in national K-12 science education standards position engineering as a discipline that can be productively integrated into science curricula. This integrated approach presents science as foundational to engineering and engineering as a tool to contextualize and reinforce science ideas such that students come to develop…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Integrated Activities, Engineering, Elementary Education
Lederman, Judith; Lederman, Norman; Bartels, Selina; Jimenez, Juan; Akubo, Mark; Aly, Shereen; Bao, Chengcheng; Blanquet, Estelle; Blonder, Ron; Bologna Soares de Andrade, Mariana; Buntting, Catherine; Cakir, Mustafa; EL-Deghaidy, Heba; ElZorkani, Ahmed; Gaigher, Estelle; Guo, Shuchen; Hakanen, Arvi; Hamed Al-Lal, Soraya; Han-Tosunoglu, Cigdem; Hattingh, Annemarie; Hume, Anne; Irez, Serhat; Kay, Gillian; Kivilcan Dogan, Ozgur; Kremer, Kerstin; Kuo, Pi-Chu; Lavonen, Jari; Lin, Shu-Fen; Liu, Cheng; Liu, Enshan; Liu, Shiang-Yao; Lv, Bin; Mamlok-Naaman, Rachel; McDonald, Christine; Neumann, Irene; Pan, Yaozhen; Picholle, Eric; Rivero García, Ana; Rundgren, Carl-Johan; Santibáñez-Gómez, David; Saunders, Kathy; Schwartz, Renee; Voitle, Frauke; von Gyllenpalm, Jakob; Wei, Fangbing; Wishart, Jocelyn; Wu, Zhifeng; Xiao, Huang; Yalaki, Yalcin; Zhou, Qiaoxue – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
Although understandings of scientific inquiry (as opposed to conducting inquiry) are included in science education reform documents around the world, little is known about what students have learned about inquiry during their elementary school years. This is partially due to the lack of any assessment instrument to measure understandings about…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Middle School Students, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Miller, Matthew; Hanley, Daniel; Brobst, Joseph – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2019
This article focuses on the impacts of a program designed to prepare elementary classroom teachers to mentor preservice teachers for effective science instruction. The mentor preparation program was grounded in research on effective science instruction and learning-focused mentoring. The goals of the mentoring professional development were to (a)…
Descriptors: Models, Program Effectiveness, Mentors, Elementary Education
Wilberforce, Cheryl; Pratt, Andrea – Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2019
As a teacher educator, feedback from students is important to ensure there is time for my own reflection to inform and develop my practice and curriculum design within formal expectations of initial teacher education. This paper considers the perceptions and expectations of a sample of student teachers, situated in a Higher Education Institution…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Knowledge Level, Teacher Competencies, Preservice Teachers
Gormley, Katie; Birdsall, Sally; France, Bev – set: Research Information for Teachers, 2019
Socio-scientific issues (SSIs) are real-life problems which have a scientific basis yet require the consideration of social concerns. Using SSIs has been advocated as an approach to engage secondary-school students with science and this study aimed to explore the potential of such an approach in the primary-school classroom. The experiences and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Social Problems, Teaching Methods
Wu, Ting; Albion, Peter – Educational Technology & Society, 2019
Facing calls for greater emphasis on STEM education in primary school classrooms, teachers may be anxious because of limited exposure to STEM in their own education. The Australian Curriculum: Technologies is new and many teachers are not familiar with its content. Hence both in-service and pre-service teachers (PSTs) require preparation. This…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, STEM Education, Elementary School Science, Foreign Countries
McNeill, Katherine L.; Lowenhaupt, Rebecca J.; Katsh-Singer, Rebecca – Science Education, 2018
School principals play a key role as instructional leaders in reform efforts, yet little is known about their knowledge of science. A key focus in recent reform efforts is the inclusion of science practices, which are potentially a significant challenge for schools. Consequently, we investigated K-8 principals' views of good science instruction…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Principals, Science Instruction, Educational Change
Bar, Varda; Shirtz, Aviv Spector; Brosh, Yafa; Sneider, Cary – Science Educator, 2019
In light of extensive research demonstrating widespread misconceptions about electricity, this paper describes a learning study that targeted the most likely source of difficulty--failure of middle school pupils to develop a mental model that serves as a bridge between static and current electricity. During the intervention, pupils first envision…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Energy, Middle School Students, Scientific Concepts
Cormas, Peter C.; Middlemiss, Samantha – School Science and Mathematics, 2019
Mathematics and science have similar learning processes (SLPs) and it has been proposed that courses focused on these and other similarities promote transfer across disciplines. However, it is not known how the use of these processes in lessons taught to children change throughout a preservice teacher education course or which are most likely to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Mathematics
Bushnell, Adam, Ed.; Gill, Angela, Ed.; Waugh, David, Ed.; Smith, Rob, Ed. – SAGE Publications Ltd (UK), 2020
How do teachers identify the potential for greater depth writing and encourage children to meet their full potential? This book was created by people who are not only passionate about primary education, but who are also leading experts in their own particular areas. They have made use of their wide experience to offer practical guidance on greater…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Writing (Composition), Writing Teachers
Repnik, Robert; Arcet, Robi; Karasel, Nedime – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2019
In this theoretical study, we combined two approaches regarding the education of teachers in the field of teaching pupils with special needs with focus on teaching natural science topics, in Slovenia and in the Part of Northern Cyprus, respectively. We analysed syllabuses for different study programmes for teachers in primary schools in selected…
Descriptors: Natural Sciences, Inclusion, Special Needs Students, Teaching (Occupation)
