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Direct linkAdam Bennion; Elizabeth A. Davis – Science Education, 2024
Preservice elementary teachers enter their science methods courses with a range of prior experience with science practice. Those prior experiences likely inform much of their science pedagogy and goals. In this study, the authors examine how a cohort of preservice elementary teachers engaged in science practice as they learned content in a physics…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary Education, Physics, Science Instruction
Lelliott, Anthony – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2014
This paper examines the knowledge construction processes involved when grades 7 and 8 South African students learnt about the concept of gravity while visiting an astronomy-related science centre. The literature on students' understanding of gravity identifies a number of alternative conceptions prevalent, several of which are mirrored in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 7, Grade 8
Peer reviewedEscalada, Lawrence T.; Unruh, Roy; Cooney, Timothy; Foltz, Julie – Science Teacher, 2001
Suggests using activities from "Physics Resources and Instructional Strategies for Motivating Students" designed to promote student understanding of physics principles. The activities are part of a learning cycle in which student explorations of concrete phenomena precede the introduction or development of abstract concepts. (SAH)
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Light, Luminescence, Physics
Renner, John W.; And Others – 1985
Investigations in Natural Science is a program in secondary school biology, chemistry, and physics based upon the description of science as a quest for knowledge, not the knowledge itself. This student manual contains the 36 physics investigations which focus on concepts related to: movement; vectors; falling objects; force and acceleration; a…
Descriptors: High Schools, Learning Processes, Physics, Science Activities
McCarthy, Deborah – Science Scope, 2005
To demonstrate how Newton's first law of motion applies to students' everyday lives, the author developed a learning cycle series of activities on inertia. The discrepant event at the heart of these activities is sure to elicit wide-eyed stares and puzzled looks from students, but also promote critical thinking and help bring an abstract concept…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Science Instruction, Motion, Physics
Peer reviewedMcIntyre, Margaret – Science and Children, 1975
Presents part of a new series aimed at providing exploratory activities for preschool children as they seek to become acquainted with the world in which they live. (Author/EB)
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Learning Activities, Learning Processes, Physical Sciences
Renner, John W.; And Others – 1985
Investigations in Natural Science is a program in secondary school biology, chemistry, and physics based upon the description of science as a quest for knowledge, not the knowledge itself. This teaching guide is designed for use with the 36 physics investigations found in the student manual. These investigations focus on concepts related to:…
Descriptors: High Schools, Learning Processes, Physics, Science Activities
Peer reviewedVon Aufshnaiter, Stefan; Schwedes, Hannelore – Science Education, 1989
Described is a curriculum project developed in Germany. The importance of playing and gaming for the acquisition of cognitive and social capacities, the relationships among acting, reasoning, and learning in physics instruction, and the spheres of subjective experience are discussed. The framework and evaluation of the curriculum are outlined. (YP)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Foreign Countries, Learning Processes, Physics
Renner, John W. – 1984
This research investigated the value students attached to the laboratory activities while studying physics using the learning cycle curriculum construction and teaching procedures. Among the procedures used to supply students laboratory data were video-taped demonstrations, "live" teacher demonstration, presenting data in written form…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Demonstrations (Educational), Learning Processes, Physics
YUS'KOVICH, V.F. – 1966
THIS VOLUME IS A COLLECTION OF EIGHT PAPERS DEALING WITH ASPECTS OF TEACHING PHYSICS TO RUSSIAN STUDENTS IN GRADES FIVE THROUGH ELEVEN. TOPICS OF PAPERS ARE (1) THE PRESENT SITUATION IN THE METHOD OF HIGH-SCHOOL PHYSICS AND ITS BEARING ON THE POLYTECHNICAL INSTRUCTION SYSTEM, (2) THE DEVELOPMENT OF RATIONAL THOUGHT IN STUDENTS DURING THE TEACHING…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Elementary School Science, Learning Processes, Physics
Peer reviewedLunetta, Vincent N.; Tamir, Pinchas – Science Teacher, 1979
Discusses how laboratory activities can match science teaching goals. Analysis of two commonly used laboratory investigations in high school physics and biology are presented using a list of 24 skills and behaviors which are related to the processes of scientific inquiry and problem solving. (HM)
Descriptors: Biology, Cognitive Objectives, Educational Objectives, Inquiry
Yerushalmi, Edit; Magen, Esther – Physics Education, 2006
Students frequently misconceive the process of problem-solving, expecting the linear process required for solving an exercise, rather than the convoluted search process required to solve a genuine problem. In this paper we present an activity designed to foster in students realization and appreciation of the nature of the problem-solving process,…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Physics
Peer reviewedTinnesand, Michael; Chan, Alan – Science Teacher, 1987
Argues that cookbook chemistry laboratory experiments do little to teach scientific inquiry. Suggests providing students with laboratory experiences that follow the introduction of a concept and challenge students to investigate that concept through an experiment involving very few initial instructions. Lists some such challenges used in chemistry…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Inquiry, Laboratory Procedures, Learning Processes
Tomasini, N. Grimellini; And Others – 1990
This paper describes the design and results of a study carried out with elementary pupils ages 8-9 years on the topic of sinking and floating, with the aim of checking the validity of a general scheme for classroom activities based on a constructivist perspective. Children's "ways of looking" at buoyancy and the production of materials…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Elementary School Science, Experiential Learning
Download full textGilmer, Penny J., Ed.; Granger, D. Ellen, Ed.; Butler, Wilbert, Ed. – Southeast Eisenhower Regional Center for Mathematics and Science Education (SERC), 2005
This monograph uses a variety of data resources and socio-cultural theoretical frames to highlight the benefits, contradictions, and directions for the future of collaboration between K-12 education and university scientists based on research and evaluation of a NSF-funded project from the Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education program…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Graduate Students, Science Activities, Teacher Effectiveness
