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Hadzigeorgiou, Yannis Petros – Research in Science Education, 2012
This paper reports on a study undertaken with the primary aim of investigating the role of wonder in the learning process. The study was carried out by a 9th grade science teacher in collaboration with a university professor. The teacher taught two classrooms of 27 and 30 students respectively, by trying to evoke a sense of wonder only in one of…
Descriptors: Evidence, Science Teachers, Grade 9, Science Instruction
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Hutchison, Charles B.; Padgett, Bobby L., II – Science Activities: Classroom Projects and Curriculum Ideas, 2007
Effective teaching is the art of getting information to the students' memory in an organized manner to facilitate later retrieval. Thanks to advances in cognitive science, one can talk of the science of teaching. A metaphor that captures the work of effective teachers is "teachers as knowledge engineers," which connotes that effective teachers…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Memory, Figurative Language, Teacher Effectiveness