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Leonidas Gavrilas; Marianna - Sotiria Papanikolaou; Konstantinos T. Kotsis – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2025
This paper presents a teaching scenario designed to introduce preschool children to electricity, structured around the 5E instructional model (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate). The study involves 18 children from an urban kindergarten with diverse backgrounds and learning needs. Over four weeks, children engage in interactive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
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Verbic, Gregor; Keerthisinghe, Chanaka; Chapman, Archie C. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2017
Engineering education is undergoing a restructuring driven by the needs of an increasingly multidisciplinary engineering profession. At the same time, power systems are transitioning toward future smart grids that will require power engineers with skills outside of the core power engineering domain. Since including new topics in the existing…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Teaching Methods, Active Learning, Student Projects
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Duit, Reinders; Neumann, Knut – School Science Review, 2014
The energy concept is one of the most important ideas for students to understand. Looking at phenomena through the lens of energy provides powerful tools to model, analyse and predict phenomena in the scientific disciplines. The cross-disciplinary nature of the energy concept enables students to look at phenomena from different angles, helping…
Descriptors: Energy, Science Instruction, Energy Education, Teaching Methods
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Delgado, Elvin – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2016
Energy issues are becoming increasingly common subjects of instruction in undergraduate- and graduate-level classrooms across a variety of disciplines. The interdisciplinary character of energy studies provides geographers with a great opportunity to present different applied and theoretical approaches to help students conceptualize energy issues…
Descriptors: Energy, Energy Education, Power Technology, Class Activities
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Popov, Nikolay, Ed.; Wolhuter, Charl, Ed.; Kalin, Jana, Ed.; Hilton, Gillian, Ed.; Ogunleye, James, Ed.; Niemczyk, Ewelina, Ed. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2016
Papers from the proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society was submitted in two volumes. Volume 1 contains papers submitted at the conference held in Sofia, Bulgaria, June 14-17, 2016. Volume 2 contains papers submitted at the 4th International Partner Conference of the International Research Centre…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Conferences (Gatherings), Comparative Education, Educational History
Glass, Lynn W., Ed. – 1985
Eight examples of innovative and outstanding energy education programs are described. These programs were selected using state criteria and at least four independent reviewers. While Project Synthesis offered a desired state, these examples of excellence provided views of what is already a reality. The goals of an exemplary science program are…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Demonstration Programs, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education
Truex, Ronald T. – 1988
Contemporary Science is a program designed to provide non-academic disaffected students as well as college-bound high school students with a meaningful and positive educational experience in science in order to bridge the gap between science and the citizen in a technological world. The program, designed as a full year elective course, involves…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Energy Education, English Instruction, Enrichment Activities
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). Div. of Science, Technical and Vocational Education. – 1983
A series of experimental modules for teachers has been developed under the direction of the International Environmental Education Programme (IEEP) of UNESCO. This particular module focuses on the pre-service training of elementary school teachers and supervisors in environmental education. Section 1, Content for Environmental Education, traces the…
Descriptors: Ecology, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Energy Education
Truex, Ronald T. – 1987
This guide was prepared for a program designed to provide non-academic disaffected students as well as college-bound high school students with a meaningful and positive educational experience in science in order to bridge the gap between science and the citizen in a technological world. The program, designed as a full year elective course,…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Course Content, Course Objectives, Elective Courses