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Stokrocki, Mary L.; Delahunt, Michael – Journal for Learning through the Arts, 2008
Ecological teaching models and evidence of success in public schools may be lacking. We created a constructivist ecological model using the animé Nausicaa with fourth graders in a Scottsdale, Arizona school. The animé involves the epic adventure, good and evil battle to affect the future of the human race. We documented results using…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Ecology, Environmental Education
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Saenz-Ludlow, Adalira – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2004
Fourth-grade students who participated in a yearlong, whole-class teaching experiment not only reconceptualized natural numbers but also generated flexible solution strategies to perform numerical computations mentally and in writing. Students' reconceptualization of number was mediated by their perceived resemblance between the physical action of…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Semiotics, Computer Uses in Education, Concept Formation