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Van Meeteren, Beth Dykstra, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2022
Children are intrigued by moving objects, even more so when they can engineer the movement. This volume in the STEM for Our Youngest Learners Series uses Ramps and Pathways as a context to provide children ages 3-8 with opportunities to engage in STEM every day. Ramps and Pathways is a meaningful and fun way for children to develop engineering…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Teaching Methods, Vignettes, Communities of Practice
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Keil, Frank C.; Lockhart, Kristi L.; Schlegel, Esther – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2010
In 4 studies, the authors examined how intuitions about the relative difficulties of the sciences develop. In Study 1, familiar everyday phenomena in physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, and economics were pretested in adults, so as to be equally difficult to explain. When participants in kindergarten, Grades 2, 4, 6, and 8, and college were…
Descriptors: Psychology, Experience, Natural Sciences, Social Psychology
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Piaget, Jean – Physics Today, 1972
Physics concepts, developed in young children, are compared to scientific concepts which have best withstood revolutions" in science. (Author/CP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology, Elementary School Students, Learning Theories
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Erickson, Gaalen L. – Science Education, 1979
Describes the use of interviews with children ranging in age from 6 to 13 to identify patterns of children's beliefs in the area of heat and temperature. Also discusses how this knowledge might be used in an instructional setting. (HM)
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Educational Psychology
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Bliss, Joan; Morrison, Ian – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1990
Presents results of longitudinal study of secondary school students. Focuses on the relationship between students' cognitive development and the understanding of dynamics. Shows that majority of younger pupils show little or no cognitive progress during three-year period whereas older pupils make reasonable progress. Concludes that different…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Psychology, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
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Marini, Zopito; Case, Robbie – Child Development, 1994
Examined the developmental sequence through which adolescents progress in solving a physics problem (balance beam ratio and proportion) and a social problem (predicting the behavior of a story character). Although most of the 9- through 19-year-olds performed at predictable and similar developmental stages on each task, a minority were more…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Elementary School Students
Gorrell, Jeffrey; And Others – 1989
This study tested the effectiveness of having fifth-grade students generate their own examples of selected concepts on energy. Hypotheses were that subjects would perform better on sections of a test related to definitions and recognition of exemplars of the concepts for which they found their own examples than on sections related to comparible…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Creative Thinking
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Eckstein, Shulamith G.; Shemesh, Michal – School Science and Mathematics, 1993
Two studies examined the construction of children's beliefs about projectile motion of a ball rolled off a table. Describes the concepts used by children, analyzes their use as a function of age, and gives a naturalistic description of their use. Results indicate that appropriate instruction can remediate misconceptions. (MDH)
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation