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Bopardikar, Anushree; Bernstein, Debra; Drayton, Brian; McKenney, Susan – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2021
Educative curricula support teacher learning as well as the learning of students. High quality educative curricula contain features that help teachers customize learning opportunities and environments in ways that meet the needs of their learners. Designing these features requires expertise related to subject matter content, pedagogy, teacher and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Science Curriculum, Instructional Design, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Price, Lauren E.; Provencher, Sabrina A.; Stevens, Carla J. – Houston Independent School District, 2018
Since established by an Appropriations Act in 2006, the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) competitive grant program in the U.S. Department of Education has supported human capital strategies "to ensure that students attending high-poverty schools have better access to effective teachers and principals, especially in hard-to-staff subject…
Descriptors: Incentive Grants, STEM Education, Human Capital, Master Teachers
Irby, Beverly J.; Tong, Fuhui; Lara-Alecio, Rafael; Guerrero, Cindy; Guo, Wenhong; Abdelrahman, Nahed; Serrano, Jiniva – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2020
In this study, we analyzed the perceptions of treatment teachers who participated in a randomized controlled trial study which targeted a science-infused literacy intervention, "Let's Talk Science," for first grade English language learner students. Three aspects, including the effectiveness of the intervention, details of instructional…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, English Language Learners
Taylor, Joseph; Kowalski, Susan; Getty, Stephen; Wilson, Christopher; Carlson, Janet – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2013
Effective instructional materials can be valuable interventions to improve student interest and achievement in science (National Research Council [NRC], 2007); yet, analyses indicate that many science instructional materials and curricula are fragmented, lack coherence, and are not carefully articulated through a sequence of grade levels (AAAS,…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Student Interests, Science Achievement, Secondary School Science
Martin, David; Sampugna, Joseph – 1978
This book is one in a series of Interdisciplinary Approaches to Chemistry (IAC). The purpose of this guide is to familiarize students with chemistry and its everyday applications around the world using inquiry and investigations. Contents include: (1) "Considering Life Processes"; (2) "Understanding the Structure of Biomolecules"; (3) "Properties…
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Chemistry, Instructional Materials, Interdisciplinary Approach
Martin, David; Sampugna, Joseph; Sandoval, Amado – 1978
This teacher's guide provides information and resources for helping to familiarize students with chemistry and its everyday applications around the world using inquiry and investigations. Contents include: (1) "Introducing Molecules in Living Systems"; (2) "Considering Life Processes"; (3) "Understanding the Structure of Biomolecules"; (4)…
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Chemistry, Instructional Materials, Interdisciplinary Approach
Atkinson, Gordon; Heikkinen, Henry; Hearle, Robert – 1978
This teacher's guide is one in a series of Interdisciplinary Approaches to Chemistry (IAC). The purpose of this guide is to provide information and resources for helping to familiarize students with chemistry and its everyday applications around the world using inquiry and investigations. Contents include: (1) "Chemistry: A Human Activity"; (2)…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Instructional Materials, Interdisciplinary Approach, Physical Sciences
Science Through Science Technology and Society Reporter, 1985
Provides descriptions of representative science-technology-society (STS) instructional materials. Entries include summary, review comments, STS features, STS connections (subject areas emphasized), experts from text, and ordering information. Criteria used to evaluate the materials are included. (JN)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Instructional Materials, Interdisciplinary Approach

Labianca, Dominick A. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1980
Proposes an interdisciplinary curriculum focusing on chemistry with a central theme of pollution--of the human body and its surroundings. Appropriate readings, films and music, art and photographs are suggested for the topics of environmental pollution, pharmacology, and toxicology. (CS)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Chemistry, College Science, Higher Education

Wraga, William G.; Hlebowitsh, Peter S. – School Science and Mathematics, 1991
Discussed is the development of the science-technology-society (STS) rationale for curriculum and instruction. Presented is an effort to strengthen the rationale behind STS education by applying to it parallel theory and research taken for the wider curriculum field. (KR)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Instructional Materials, Interdisciplinary Approach, Science and Society
Hansen, Henning; Hlawatsch, Sylke; Lucken, Markus – Online Submission, 2007
Trying to implement interdisciplinary geoscience curriculum materials in geography and science education we asked how they fit into teachers' existing practices, their needs for support and strategies to plan instruction. The focus of our case study has been the identification of the goals teachers pursue with the materials, of strategies for…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Earth Science, Science Curriculum, Foreign Countries

Frazier, Kenneth L. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1979
Presents an outline, a description, and a methodology for teaching a course in the history and philosophy of science to high school students. (Author/SA)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Course Descriptions, Instructional Materials, Interdisciplinary Approach

Rosenthal, Dorothy B. – American Biology Teacher, 1979
Presents a rationale for teaching a course to high school students on the influence of science and technology on society. Bioethics and food, and world hunger are two of the topics included in the course outline. References are given for simulation games, readings, and audiovisual materials. (SA)
Descriptors: Biology, Course Content, Educational Resources, Ethics
Bernstein, Leonard, Ed. – 1979
This is the teacher's guide for the required, interdisciplinary, ninth-year environmental science course for the New York City Schools. One hundred twenty lesson plans, divided into nine units, are presented. Areas of study include the living and non-living environment, ecosystems, population, urban ecology, energy and technology, pollution, and…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Environmental Education, Grade 9, Instructional Materials
Stoever, Edward C., Jr.; Korporaal, Arie R. – Geotimes, 1979
Detailed are the origins, development, and implementation of the Crustal Evolution Education Project (CEEP). This group has produced, for use in earth science and other classes in grades 8-10, a series of instructional modules based on current scientific research in the composition, history, and processes of the earth's crust. (BT)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Earth Science, Geology