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Direct linkMetz, Kathleen E. – Elementary School Journal, 2008
The American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Science have emphasized the need to design curriculum such that students do not simply learn about science, but also do science. Although obviously the knowledge-building practices among scientists and children in elementary school science classrooms will always be…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Instructional Design, Grade 1, Science Instruction
Campbell, Coral; Chittleborough, Gail – Teaching Science, 2014
A Victorian government initiative called "The Primary Science Specialists Professional Learning Program" is designed to tackle students' falling interest in science by investing in the building of teacher capacity. The aims of the initiative are: to improve the science knowledge base of all teachers and therefore increase teachers'…
Descriptors: Specialists, Instructional Improvement, Science Course Improvement Projects, Science Instruction
Goodnough, Karen – Teaching Education, 2004
This paper describes how collaboration emerged in a school district-university partnership designed to foster teacher development in the context of elementary science education. The Teachers Researching Inquiry-Based Science project involved four elementary teachers, a school district science mentoring teacher, a school district science…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Science Projects, Action Research, Participant Observation
Falloon, Garry – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2013
In late 2006, the New Zealand Government embarked on a series of initiatives to explore how the resources and expertise of eight, small, state-owned science research institutes could be combined efficiently to support science teaching in schools. Programmes were developed to enable students and teachers to access and become involved in local…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Sustainability, Scientists, Research and Development Centers
Woodruff, Bobby J. – 1969
The Conceptually Oriented Program in Elementary Science (COPES) Test of Science Concepts was administered to all children in a grade four and a grade six class after completion of a unit from the COPES materials. A semi-standardized interview schedule was used to interview selected pupils. Tapes of these interviews were rated independently by…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary School Science, Evaluation, Interviews
Peer reviewedSmith, Mary Lee – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1982
Argues that naturalistic research is appropriate for studying science education. Stages of naturalistic research are explained and illustrated with material from NSF-sponsored Case Studies in Science Education. Problems in traditional research methods are presented as justification for inductive models or models based on multiple methods,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Research, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education
