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Pike, Lisa; Rentsch, Jeremy – Science and Children, 2017
This math activity focuses on experimental design while connecting math with life science. It is important that the science and engineering practices (SEPs) are not taught as a separate "unit" but integrated within the curriculum wherever possible. The focus is on experimental design to teach animal behavior. Students predict and test…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Science Instruction, Engineering Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Mafra, Paulo; Lima, Nelson; Carvalho, Graça S. – Journal of Biological Education, 2015
Experimental science activities in primary school enable important cross-curricular learning. In this study, experimental activities on microbiology were carried out by 16 pupils in a Portuguese grade-4 classroom (9-10?years old) and were focused on two problem-questions related to microbiology and health: (1) do your teeth carry microbes? (2) why…
Descriptors: Science Education, Elementary School Science, Dental Health, Health Education
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Ferreira, Maria Eduarda; Porteiro, Ana Cláudia; Pitarma, Rui – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The Environmental Studies curricular area, taught at primary school level in Portugal, is a challenging context for curricular interdisciplinarity and the achievement of small-scale research and creative and innovative experiences, inside and outside the classroom. From that assumption, we present, under the master course of primary teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Science, Environmental Education, Science Teachers
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Croll, Doreen A. – Science and Children, 1986
Presents a diversity of concrete experiences that can be used with eggs for young elementary age students. Includes procedures and material list for several activities that are hands-on and interdisciplinary in nature. (ML)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Interdisciplinary Approach, Learning Activities
Hungerford, Harold R.; Steinruck, Yvonne Siv – Teacher, 1978
Eight steps are outlined for presenting a combined science/language experience unit to primary students, in which the children observe and discuss a phenomenon and dictate a group report. Sample projects with fossils, magnets, and air pressure are described. (SJL)
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Grade 1, Integrated Activities, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Williams, J. – School Science Review, 1981
Procedures used by a primary science class to build five different working solar furnaces are summarized. Diagrams, illustrations, and graphs of children's results are included. (DC)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Heat, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Zipko, Stephen J. – Science and Children, 1982
Describes an interdisciplinary, month-long minicourse project focusing on the gypsy moth. The project provided students with opportunities to develop analytical and problem-solving skills while studying content from entomology, botany, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, math, art, law, political science, history, English, consumer studies, and…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Entomology
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Beaver, John B.; Cheney, Bruce D. – Science and Children, 1989
Uses a discrepant event to teach students about volume and area. Outlines directions for class demonstration, needed materials, questions, a story problem, and related activities to perform this assignment. (Author/RT)
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Instructional Improvement, Interdisciplinary Approach, Mathematics
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Shirah, Sue; Dorman, Mildred M. – Science and Children, 1989
Described are science activities in which students concentrate on their senses and make discoveries with their eyes, ears, noses, mouths, and hands. Suggested experiments include activities involving cooking, tasting, observing, floating and sinking objects, making rain, and stringed musical instruments. (RT)
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Elementary School Science, Experiential Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1987
This guide was developed with the intention of helping teachers and school site administrators in California review the elementary science curriculum and compare it to an idealized model that is presented in the document. Part I of the guide provides a summary of a number of characteristics considered to be important to a strong elementary science…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Earth Science, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
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Tephly, Joan B. – Science and Children, 1989
Presents nine hands-on discovery and inquiry type activities which penetrate the student's immediate world, integrate other curricular areas, involve group cooperation, excite, motivate, and encourage creative thinking. (RT)
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Creative Thinking, Elementary School Science, Environmental Education
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Science and Children, 1989
Describes activities which demonstrate the abundance of organisms living underground. Provides outlined directions, lists of materials, and a soil ecosystem transparency for delving into the properties of soil. (RT)
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Botany, Elementary School Science, Experiential Learning
Defendorf, Jean, Ed. – 1987
This publication provides information and activities for teaching about seashells and process skills including observing, classifying, collecting and interpreting data, inferring, measuring, and predicting. There are 10 lessons. Lessons 1 through 5 deal with an introduction to shells, why animals have shells, observing and classifying shells, the…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Elementary School Science, Experiential Learning, Instructional Improvement
Anchorage School District, AK. – 1987
This publication provides information and activities for identifying objects using the five senses and process skills including observing, classifying, collecting and interpreting data, inferring, and predicting. Lessons 1 through 3 deal with the identification of an unknown substance and the physical properties of powders. Lessons 4 through 6 are…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Experiential Learning, Instructional Improvement, Interdisciplinary Approach
LaHart, David, Ed. – 1981
Fossil fuels, upon which we now depend almost exclusively, are finite resources. Because the environmental problems inherent in large scale fossil fuel consumption are increasingly apparent, the reality of developing alternative energy sources must be faced. Solar energy is the obvious solution to the problem. It is a renewable, clean source that…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Conservation Education, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education
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