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Ürek, Handan – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2020
Germinating a seed is presumably the first experiment made by a child in his life. So, it has an important place both in child's scientific experience and understanding. Despite the significance of the experiment, the literature indicates that students possess various misconceptions related to the concepts of seed and seed germination. So, it is…
Descriptors: Science Experiments, Plants (Botany), Middle School Students, Children
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Concannon, James P.; Brown, Patrick L. – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2018
Students come to class with little understanding about torque, angular velocity, and angular acceleration despite the fact that these physical science concepts are frequently observed. For example, torque occurs when car and bicycle tires rotate, the movement of fishing pole when hooking a fish, and when a person uses a hammer to drive in a nail.…
Descriptors: Science Activities, Science Instruction, Physics, Scientific Concepts
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Ashmann, Scott; Gichobi, Mary – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2018
The use of creativity in science practices is many times lost on secondary students. Creativity is seen as something central to the arts and humanities, but tangential at best in the sciences. However, an examination of many great scientific discoveries and the work of everyday contemporary scientists shows the depth and breadth of the use of…
Descriptors: Creativity, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, Secondary School Students