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Sivaram Ponnusamy, Editor; Jilali Antari, Editor; Gwanggil Jeon, Editor; Mansour Assaf, Editor; Bhisham Sharma, Editor – IGI Global, 2025
Education is undergoing critical transformations driven by innovations in remote experimentation and learning analytics. As technology reshapes how we teach and learn, remote experimentation allows students to conduct hands-on, interactive experiments from anywhere in the world, breaking down geographical and resource-based barriers. This shift…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Distance Education, Hands on Science
Barthet, Michelle M. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2021
COVID-19 has changed about every aspect of life including how we teach in higher education. Laboratory experiments vital for learning hands-on techniques are limited due to social distancing requirements and increased numbers of distance-learning students. The solution to loss of hands-on activities has been to compensate with virtual laboratory…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Molecular Biology, Hands on Science
Akay, Cenk; Kanadli, Sedat – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2021
There is a contradiction in the literature about the effect of REACT strategy on science achievement. This study aims to resolve this contradiction by determining the effect of REACT strategy on student science achievement and the factors affecting this strategy by integrating findings obtained from both qualitative and quantitative studies. The…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Achievement, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
Selco, Jodye; Bruno, Mary; Chan, Sue – Journal of Chemical Education, 2013
Understanding how the periodic table of elements is organized and how to read information from it is fundamental for understanding chemistry. Introductory chemistry courses usually include discussions detailing what elemental information can be determined by virtue of its position on the periodic table. Although many people have been exposed to…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Hands on Science, Tables (Data), Science Instruction
de Silva, Eugene, Ed. – IGI Global, 2015
While the great scientists of the past recognized a need for a multidisciplinary approach, today's schools often treat math and science as subjects separate from the rest. This not only creates a disinterest among students, but also a potential learning gap once students reach college and then graduate into the workforce. "Cases on…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Education, Hands on Science, Elementary Secondary Education
Farrell, Ivan; Hamed, Kastro M. – Science Activities: Classroom Projects and Curriculum Ideas, 2016
This article describes the use of project-based instruction in activities and labs intended to develop higher-order thinking skills with high school students and pre-service teachers through the use of soap making.
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Teaching Methods, Preservice Teacher Education
Cimadomo, Guido – Journal of Learning Design, 2014
The changes that the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) framework obliged the School of Architecture of Malaga, University of Malaga. to make to its "History of Architecture" course are discussed in this paper. It was taken up as an opportunity to modify the whole course, introducing creative teaching and "imaginative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Architectural Education, Higher Education, Educational Technology
Alaimo, Peter J.; Langenhan, Joseph M.; Tanner, Martha J.; Ferrenberg, Scott M. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2010
We developed and implemented a yearlong safety program into our organic chemistry lab courses that aims to enhance student attitudes toward safety and to ensure students learn to recognize, demonstrate, and assess safe laboratory practices. This active, collaborative program involves the use of student "safety teams" and includes…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Laboratory Safety, Organic Chemistry, Science Laboratories
Sianez, David M.; Fugere, Madeleine A.; Lennon, Carter A. – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2010
Technology and engineering education students responded to a survey regarding hands-on and hands-off activities. First, the students listed hands-on and hands-off activities and what characterized the two types of activities. Activities such as building or assembling something as well as working manually with tools were viewed as hands-on. Passive…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Student Attitudes, Factor Analysis, Engineering
Morales, Hector – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J1), 2010
Incorporating business skills such as problem-solving, public presentations, collaboration, and self-direction into STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects is an excellent way to build students' enthusiasm for these disciplines. When educators add workplace internships to the learning experience, they are well on their way…
Descriptors: Careers, Experiential Learning, Engineering, High School Seniors

Welzel, Manuela – Research in Science Education, 1997
Presents results from empirical studies of physics learning for different age groups using a situated cognition perspective to construct detailed understandings of how individual learning processes unfold. Contains 35 references. (PVD)
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Research, Educational Change, Epistemology

Brown, Lewis M.; Kelso, Paul R.; Rexroad, Carl B. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2001
Describes the use of several teaching techniques based on constructivist educational theory. The teaching techniques are used with preservice teachers to enable them to experience active learning strategies in the context in which science is practiced. (Contains 19 references.) (DDR)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Constructivism (Learning), Discovery Learning, Elementary Secondary Education
Baumgartner, Erin – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2010
Preservice preparation courses for elementary teachers of science can provide opportunities to build pedagogical content knowledge. One common concern of preservice teachers is how to cope with a preplanned lesson that does not proceed as planned. Providing opportunities for preservice teachers to experience the unexpected actually immerses them…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Curriculum, Science Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge

Lord, Thomas – American Biology Teacher, 1998
Argues that active learning is the way to engage students in learning biology. Discusses the use of constructivism in biology instruction, resistance to cooperative learning, creating constructivist-based activities, and grading cooperative activities. Contains 18 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Biology, Constructivism (Learning), Cooperative Learning, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)

Farnsworth, Elizabeth J.; Holsinger, Kent E.; Mehrhoff, Leslie J.; Murray, Nancy; Preston, Judy; Silander, John A., Jr. – Bioscience, 2001
Describes a program that puts students through a 10-week summer internship at a non-profit organization and provides them with experiences in career choices in the biological sciences. Explains three parts of the student training and evaluates the program. (Contains 32 references.) (YDS)
Descriptors: Biology, Career Development, Cooperative Learning, Hands on Science