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Uke, Ifeyinwa – ProQuest LLC, 2022
There have been many attempts to address the deficits in traditional teaching methods for decades Multiple studies have been done on the Common Knowledge Construction Model (CKCM) and the results of each study has shown an improvement. The addition of relational conceptual change has added much needed improvement in teaching science. This study,…
Descriptors: Botany, Cytology, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Daniela Pahome – Romanian Review of Geographical Education, 2023
This study explores the importance of scientific observation in primary education, highlighting how the use of observation sheets can facilitate the acquisition of knowledge and the development of students' observation skills. In the research, 153 second-grade students were divided into three experimental groups, each group observing a woody plant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
Maurice M. W. Cheng; Bronwen Cowie; Chloe Stantiall; Nick Byrant; Natalie Thompson – Teaching and Learning Research Initiative, 2024
This project aims to develop primary, intermediate, and high school students' sense of place and science-related possible selves through local curriculum units that focus on plants. We chose plants because, compared with animals, they are often overlooked (hence the phenomenon of "plant blindness") in their part in realising many…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
Pate, Leigha – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Research shows that many citizens have misconceptions about the source of their food and fiber. Several organizations have developed agriculture-based curriculum in an effort to increase agricultural literacy. Although there are a number of resources available to teachers, it is unclear which resources are being used and how often they are being…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction
Preston, Christine – Teaching Science, 2017
Plants are often overlooked in favour of animals when teaching about living things. Focusing on familiar animals that share human characteristics helps young children learn about similar features. Examining plants for their differences, though, helps foster wonder. In the author's experience, children find it intriguing that plants need…
Descriptors: Botany, Elementary School Science, Young Children, Science Activities
Bradbury, Leslie; Wilson, Rachel; Pepper, Nancy; Ledford, Mitzi – Science and Children, 2016
Most plants are able to obtain all of the nutrients that they need from air, water, and soil; however, this is not true of carnivorous plants. Because they tend to live in boggy soils where there are small amounts of nitrogen, carnivorous plants have developed specialized structures that enable them to lure and capture insects and sometimes other…
Descriptors: Science Education, Plants (Botany), Natural Resources, Teaching Methods
Hicks, Debbie – Primary Science, 2016
Throughout the United Kingdom's (UK's) primary science curriculum, there are numerous opportunities for teachers to use the farming industry as a rich and engaging real-world context for science learning. Teachers can focus on the animals and plants on the farm as subjects for children to learn about life processes. They can turn attention…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Thompson, Stephen L.; Lotter, Christine; Fann, Xumei; Taylor, Laurie – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2016
Researchers examined how an inquiry-based instructional treatment emphasizing interrelated plant processes influenced 210 elementary pre-service teachers' (PTs) conceptions of three plant processes, photosynthesis, cellular respiration, and transpiration, and the interrelated nature of these processes. The instructional treatment required PTs to…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Plants (Botany), Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Science
Wilson, Rachel; Bradbury, Leslie – Science and Children, 2016
The diet of many students consists of on-the-go processed food. As part of a larger school garden project, the authors wanted students to consider the relevance of plants in their own lives, both as food sources for us and for the animals that we eat. In this article, they present a mini-unit they taught in a third-grade classroom that helped…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), Units of Study, Grade 3, Elementary School Science
Keeley, Page – Science and Children, 2014
Many young children come to school with prior experiences planting seeds in a garden or in a pot, watering them, and seeing them grow. These early scientific investigations are designed to help children understand that seeds need water, something to grow in (such as soil), and the right temperature to sprout--if these conditions are met, a seed…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Gardening, Scientific Concepts, Plants (Botany)
McGough, Julie; Nyberg, Lisa – Science and Children, 2013
In this article, students examined how and why plants work through in-depth investigations. They performed scientific inquiry through questioning, developed models, constructed explanations, and communicated information of the structure and function and system models of plants, and then engineered a representation of their understanding. The…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Grade 1, Plants (Botany)
Seah, Lay Hoon – Research in Science Education, 2016
This study is an attempt to examine the use of linguistic resources by primary science students so as to understand the conceptual and language demands encountered by them when constructing written explanations. The students' written explanations and the instructional language (whole-class discussion and textbook) employed over the topic, the life…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Grade 4, Science Education, Science Instruction
Exploring Third-Grade Student Model-Based Explanations about Plant Relationships within an Ecosystem
Zangori, Laura; Forbes, Cory T. – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
Elementary students should have opportunities to develop scientific models to reason and build understanding about how and why plants depend on relationships within an ecosystem for growth and survival. However, scientific modeling practices are rarely included within elementary science learning environments and disciplinary content is often…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Models
Roghaar, Deborah; Lott, Kimberly – Science and Children, 2014
Kindergartners have an energizing sense of wonder and an insatiable desire to learn about the world around them. For this reason, the study of ecosystems and how organisms interact within their environment is very exciting for these young learners. An appropriate place for young students to start constructing their own understanding of living and…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Kindergarten, Elementary School Science, Hands on Science
Dennis, Mike; Duggan, Adrienne; McGregor, Deb – Primary Science, 2014
Evolution and inheritance appear in the new National Science Curriculum for England, which comes into effect from September 2014. In the curriculum documents, it is expected that pupils in year 6 (ages 10-11) should be taught to: (1) recognise that living things have changed over time; (2) recognise that living things produce offspring of the same…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Evolution, Science Curriculum, Grade 6