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21st-Century Learning a-Buzz: Integrating and Assessing an Arts-Centred STEAM Approach to Learning with Apsicopes (Beehives) in Two Aotearoa Intermediate Classrooms
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Carrie Vander Zwaag – Assessment Matters, 2022
Integrated STEAM education (science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics) has been shown to effectively foster global competencies as well as school and societal engagement for 21st century learners of diverse backgrounds. However, facilitating quality STEAM teaching and learning can be challenging for teachers, particularly in the area…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Education, Teaching Methods, Teaching Experience
Calculating for Creativity: Maths Joins the Circus
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Coleman, Claire M.; Lind, Tim – Waikato Journal of Education, 2020
Following recent increases in the diversity of students, technologies, pedagogies and environments, New Zealand classrooms are sites of growing complexity. Tasked with covering a broad range of disciplines within each school day, opportunities for subject integration are of increasing value to busy teachers. Developing upon a previous piece of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach
The Apiscope Buzz: A Mixed Methods Action Research Project Investigating STEM to STEAM Using the Apiscope as a Tool for Differentiated Teaching and Learning
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Riley, Tracy; Noble, Anne – Teaching and Learning Research Initiative, 2021
This Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) project was a 2-year exploratory study focusing on differentiating the curriculum in response to individual learner differences. The project was designed to explore learning and teaching of differentiated scientific content through observational processes and the expression of that learning…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Education, Individual Differences, Teaching Methods
Developing "Butterfly Warriors": A Case Study of Science for Citizenship
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Chen, Junjun; Cowie, Bronwen – Research in Science Education, 2013
Given worldwide concern about a decline in student engagement in school science and an increasing call for science for citizenship in New Zealand Curriculum, this study focused on a butterfly unit that investigated how students in a year-4 primary classroom learnt about New Zealand butterflies through thinking, talking, and acting as citizen…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students
Primary School Childrens' Ideas about Spiders. Learning in Science Project (Primary). Working Paper No. 108.
Biddulph, Fred – 1982
The Learning in Science Project (Primary)--LISP(P)--investigated the questions and explanations primary children have about spiders. The data comprise 112 questions and 104 explanations (included in appendices) offered by children after being shown a picture of a spider. Additional data were collected during individual interviews with 18 students.…
Descriptors: Animals, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Curriculum Development
Pupils' Views about Spiders. Learning in Science Project (Primary). Working Paper No. 123.
Hawe, Eleanor – 1984
The Learning in Science Project (Primary)--LISP(P)--investigated the ideas and interests about spiders held by 8- to 10-year-old children. Data included 303 questions--and answers to some of the questions--about spiders obtained from children in four classes and from responses obtained during individual interviews with 10 children from each age…
Descriptors: Animals, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Curriculum Development