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Jrène Rahm – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2024
Background: A move beyond static and representational accounts of science learning and becoming through relations is needed. Purpose: In this paper extra-learning activities in science offered by a community organization to an elementary class over one academic school year are assessed in light of their contributions to science learning and…
Descriptors: Science Activities, Elementary School Science, Community Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Azam Ghazali; Zakiah Mohamad Ashari; Joanne Hardman; Allif Abu Yazid – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2024
In recent years, there has been a growing concern in science education on the enhancement of preschoolers' knowledge and motivation for concepts by implementing efficient teaching methods. This study explored the development and effectiveness of the E-sky Module in increasing the development of preschoolers in Project-based Learning (PBL)…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Science Education, Preschool Education, Science Instruction
Deller, Clarysly – Primary Science, 2020
Children often have very stereotyped views of science and scientists, far removed from their own lives. Getting children to 'become' scientists and feel that they are actually "doing" science, being involved in something pertinent to them and their environment, is a goal of modern science teaching. This article aims to illustrate how…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Science Education, Scientists
McMahon, Kendra – Primary Science, 2018
The Teacher Assessment in Primary Science (TAPS) Focused Assessment approach embeds assessment within normal classroom science activities. Essentially, a Focused Assessment is a lesson plan for a science inquiry, with an identified focus for assessment and guidance on how to interpret the children's responses in relation to expectations for that…
Descriptors: Science Activities, Evaluation Methods, Elementary School Science, Inquiry
Dahn, Maggie; Lee, Christine; Enyedy, Noel; Danish, Joshua – Smart Learning Environments, 2021
In inquiry-based science lessons teachers face the challenge of adhering to curricular goals while simultaneously following students' intuitive understandings. Improvisation (improv) provides a useful frame for understanding teaching in these inquiry-based contexts. This paper builds from prior work that uses improv as a metaphor for teaching to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Science Instruction, Inquiry, Science Activities
Bolton, Nicky – Primary Science, 2020
In this article, Nicky Bolton describes how she devised an approach that would encourage both experienced and newly qualified and trainee teachers to approach outdoor learning confidently. The challenge was to enable every teacher to view the outdoors as an effective learning. She called this model 'Bucket School' and initially developed the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Outdoor Education, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Science
Marshall, Amberlee – Primary Science, 2019
The author writes about taking on the role of Science Coordinator, changing expectations, and raising the profile of science in her school.
Descriptors: Science Education, Elementary School Science, Foreign Countries, Instructor Coordinators
Parks, Melissa – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2020
Maximizing classroom time to include meaningful content-based learning with fun engaging activities that simultaneously challenge and encourage students is a hallmark of a successful school day. This article shares one instructional approach that does a model eliciting activity (MEA). A MEA is a real-world, problem-based scenario framed around a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Teaching Methods, Problem Based Learning, Letters (Correspondence)
Sema Aydin Ceran – Journal of Inquiry Based Activities, 2023
In this study, the primary goal was to enhance the knowledge and awareness of 4th-grade primary school students regarding global pandemic diseases and methods of safeguarding against worldwide epidemic diseases which are socio-scientific issues. To achieve this goal, two activity modules tailored for 4th-grade students were created. These…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, COVID-19
Simpson, Sherralyn; Thomas, Caroline – Primary Science, 2020
As schools in England re-open their doors and welcome children back in September 2020 after the COVID-19 lockdown, what can, and should, primary science look like in the 'new normal'? If timetables are constricted to adhere to the demands of social distancing, innovative practical science enquiry will be needed. Even if they are not, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
Orchard, Kevin; Hall, Becky; Milward, Zoe – Primary Science, 2019
Teachers from Kates Hill Primary School describe uniting the school in a vision for science and raising the profile of science through enrichment by using Explorify.
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Teaching Methods, Outdoor Education
Sliogeris, Marija; Almeida, Sylvia Christine – Research in Science Education, 2019
Play-based approaches to science learning allow children to meaningfully draw on their everyday experiences and activities as they explore science concepts in context. Acknowledging the crucial role of the teacher in facilitating science learning through play, the purpose of this qualitative study was to examine how teacher-guided play, in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Play, Science Activities, Science Instruction
Kansoy, Merve Berika; Sert-Cibik, Ayse – Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health, 2023
The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of guided inquiry activities supported by digital stories in the 6th grade science lesson on students' attitudes towards inquiry. The method of the study was determined as the embedded design, one of the mixed method research designs. 27 students from a public school located in the countryside…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Inquiry, Story Telling, Computer Uses in Education
Nolting, Sarah; Wilcox, Jesse; Moore-Dilworth, Naryah; Grenko, Mackenzie – Science and Children, 2021
The "Next Generation Science Standards" call for engaging students in practices that scientists and engineers use (NGSS Lead States 2013), but it's also important to explicitly teach thinking approaches that scientists and engineers use. One way to help children think and act like scientists and engineers is to engage them with…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Thinking Skills, Problem Solving, Computation
Roberts, Kean; Wilcox, Jesse; Bahnson, Anna – Science and Children, 2021
Regardless of the student population or school geography, community gardens can provide a context for teaching numerous standards across multiple grades and can help all students better understand nature. To help illustrate the versatility of community gardens, this article includes three sample 5E lessons from different grade levels and school…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Gardening