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Bailey, Maia; Sherman, Natasha – American Biology Teacher, 2023
Genotyping real alleles in real people is an excellent way to connect abstract genetics concepts to human variation in the classroom; however, these activities can inadvertently promote misconceptions of the power of genetics to determine individual and group traits. By analyzing our own and others' experiences of genotyping activities in the…
Descriptors: Genetics, Misconceptions, Science Education, Learning Activities
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Goutam Roy; Shukla Sikder; Lena Danaia – International Journal of STEM Education, 2025
This article systematically reviews empirical studies involving scientific literacy published in peer-reviewed journals, focusing on the construction of scientific literacy in formal education worldwide, the suggested ways of adopting scientific literacy in the early years, and the current practices and future possibilities for scientific literacy…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Early Childhood Education, Educational Research, Science Education
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Anneli Bergnell; Lisbeth Åberg-Bengtsson – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
This article is based on multimodal perspectives and contributes to research on how children deal with a multimodal illustration of scientific concepts used in emergent science (i.e., early years science) education. It presents a study of a group of 14 preschoolers observed when dealing with the concept of stability, as illustrated in a…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Early Childhood Education, Science Education, Learning Modalities
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Burde, Jan-Philipp; Weatherby, Thomas Sean; Wilhelm, Thomas – Physics Teacher, 2022
Electricity has shaped modern civilization in a way few other discoveries have. Nonetheless, few students successfully develop a basic understanding of voltage, current, and resistance or their mutual relationship in simple DC circuits. Despite teachers' best efforts in the classroom, so-called "alternative conceptions" often prevail…
Descriptors: Electronic Equipment, Teaching Methods, Science Education, Learning Activities
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Maria Vetleseter Bøe; Anders Lauvland; Ellen Karoline Henriksen – Science Education, 2025
Supporting student participation and learning in STEM involves motivating students to engage in the most effective learning activities. In this article, we study how student motivation interacts with learning activities, and we pay special attention to active learning and the Scandinavian context where participation in learning activities is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Physics, Science Education
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Nataša Nikolic; Radovan Antonijevic – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2024
Problem-solving is, by nature, a creative process which, by teaching through the implementation of research and discovery activities, allows students to create their knowledge, revise it and link it to broader systems. The aim of the research was to describe and analyse the process of solving biological problems through activities that are…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Biology, Academic Achievement, Learning Activities
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Gunckel, Kristin L.; Covitt, Beth A.; Love, Garrett; Cooper-Wagoner, Judith A.; Moreno, Dan – Science Teacher, 2022
Computers and computer algorithms have contributed to important scientific advances by allowing scientists and engineers to create and use sophisticated models to explain and predict phenomena. Yet, of the eight "Next Generation Science Standards" ("NGSS") science and engineering practices, computational thinking may be the…
Descriptors: Science Education, Computation, Thinking Skills, Learning Activities
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Mara R. Fink; Tyler Z. Sodia; Kevin J. Cash – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2024
Winogradsky columns were invented by Sergei Winogradsky in the 1880s and have commonly been used as a microbiology classroom learning tool in K-12 and collegiate education. However, they can be challenging to examine with microscopy. We scaled down Winogradsky columns into nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) tubes and replaced the natural sediment…
Descriptors: Microbiology, Science Education, Laboratory Equipment, Learner Engagement
Salisbury, Sara – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Teaching science involves designing learning experiences that attend to a complex set of relationships between students, the discipline of science, and the places where science experiences are carried out. Unfortunately, with traditional approaches to K-12 science instruction, contributions to learning from students and places are often overlooked…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Science Education, Human Capital, Children
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Linda Hämmerle; Daniela Hlavka; Michael Kiehn; Peter Pany; Peter Lampert – American Biology Teacher, 2024
Especially within the light of the current loss of biodiversity, we want our students to gain a better understanding of the issues at stake in order to take action and support plants and their pollinators. Many educational approaches focus on honeybees, disregarding the vast diversity in the context of pollination systems and the complex…
Descriptors: Biodiversity, Plants (Botany), Teaching Methods, Scientific Concepts
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Thumah Mapulanga; Anthony Bwalya – Cogent Education, 2024
The quality of education provided to students is closely related to teacher professional knowledge and teaching-learning activities used in classrooms. Teachers' and students' perceptions of teaching-learning activities used in their classrooms may influence and give insight into educational quality. This study compared 40 teachers' and 469…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Students, Teacher Attitudes
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Tekin Guler – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2025
The current study examines the impacts of scenario-based science activities on the scientific creativity and reflective thinking skills of fourth-grade students in primary school. Therefore, it was carried out in a primary school in Yozgat city center during the 2023-2024 Academic Year. An experimental group (24 students [13 girls, 11 boys]) and a…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Science Education, Thinking Skills
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Andrea López; Alejandra Meneses; Maximiliano Montenegro – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2025
This study examines how pre-service science teachers integrate technology into the design of learning activities, paying particular attention to types of technology integration, cognitive demand, scientific research skills, and TPACK. A mixed methods approach was used to analyze 49 learning activities designed by pre-service physics, chemistry,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Technology Integration, Science Education, Learning Activities
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Leonie I. Johann; Fredrik K. H. Rusk; Michael J. Reiss; Jorge Groß – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
This study reports on the theoretical- and empirical-based design and evaluation of cell membrane biology learning activities within the Model of Educational Reconstruction and experiential realism. First, we designed analogy-based learning activities by considering students' and scientists' conceptions as described in the literature. Secondly, we…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Thinking Skills, Cytology, Molecular Biology
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Cassia Fernandez; Tatiana Hochgreb-Haegele; Adelmo Eloy; Paulo Blikstein – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2024
Recent work in science education has emphasized the importance of the conceptual, social, and epistemic dimensions in science learning. But what about the material dimension--the actual physical materials that students use? The way their characteristics and affordances limit or determine instruction has thus far not been as thoroughly explored.…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Science Education, Printed Materials, Instructional Design
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