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Direct linkShaver, Ruth E. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
"I Wonder...Gaining Wisdom and Growing Faith Through Scientific Exploration" is an intergenerational science curriculum designed to be used in congregations. The goal of this curriculum and the theoretical work underpinning it is to counter the perception that people of faith cannot also be people who possess a scientific understanding…
Descriptors: Christianity, Science Education, Science Curriculum, Teaching Methods
Download full textRaper, Diana J.; Zander, Holli – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2009
Global warming and climate change have become hot topics that incite debate, inspire scientific research, and influence international policy. However, the scientific research that provides the past climate and environmental information upon which contemporary environmental change is measured, receives little attention in high school curriculum.…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Paleontology, Educational Change, Climate
Peer reviewedDodick, Jeff; Orion, Nir – American Biology Teacher, 2003
Discusses challenges faced in the teaching and learning of evolution. Presents a curricular program and a case study on evolutionary biology. Investigates students' conceptual knowledge after exposure to the program "From Dinosaurs to Darwin," which focuses on fossil records as evidence of evolution. (Contains 32 references.) (YDS)
Descriptors: Biology, Evolution, Foreign Countries, High Schools
Peer reviewedMacdonald, R. Heather; Purdy, Renee Ann – Journal of Geological Education, 1989
Students write a short paper in which they describe and interpret the history of a geologic feature. Provides an introduction, logistics of the assignment, background and rationale for the writing process, suggestions for change, and conclusions. (RT)
Descriptors: College Science, Geology, Interdisciplinary Approach, Introductory Courses
Peer reviewedBlueford, Joyce R.; Gordon, Leslie C. – Science and Children, 1984
Discusses summer workshops designed to help elementary teachers develop an earth science program for their schools. Includes descriptions of three lessons and related instructional strategies on rocks and minerals, topographic maps, and fossils. (BC)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Earth Science, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
Alsop, Steve, Ed.; Bencze, Larry, Ed.; Pedretti, Erminia, Ed. – Open University Press, 2004
How might exemplary practice be represented by teachers' narratives? How might such representations be analyzed? How might theory and practice be related? "Analyzing Exemplary Science Teaching" is a text that seeks to combine educational theory and practice through analysis of a series of teachers' descriptions of "exemplary"…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Scientific Principles
Stoever, Edward C., Jr. – 1979
Crustal Evolution Education Project (CEEP) modules were designed to: (1) provide students with the methods and results of continuing investigations into the composition, history, and processes of the earth's crust and the application of this knowledge to man's activities and (2) to be used by teachers with little or no previous background in the…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Geology, Instructional Materials, Paleontology
Stoever, Edward C., Jr. – 1979
Crustal Evolution Education Project (CEEP) modules were designed to: (1) provide students with the methods and results of continuing investigations into the composition, history, and processes of the earth's crust and the application of this knowledge to man's activities and (2) to be used by teachers with little or no previous background in the…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Geology, Instructional Materials, Oceanography
Stoever, Edward C., Jr. – 1979
Crustal Evolution Education Project (CEEP) modules were designed to: (1) provide students with the methods and results of continuing investigations into the composition, history, and processes of the earth's crust and the application of this knowledge to man's activities and (2) to be used by teachers with little or no previous background in the…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Geology, Instructional Materials, Oceanography
Stoever, Edward C., Jr. – 1979
Crustal Evolution Education Project (CEEP) modules were designed to: (1) provide students with the methods and results of continuing investigations into the composition, history, and processes of the earth's crust and the application of this knowledge to man's activities and (2) to be used by teachers with little or no previous background in the…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Evolution, Geology, Instructional Materials
Stoever, Edward C., Jr. – 1979
Crustal Evolution Education Project (CEEP) modules were designed to: (1) provide students with the methods and results of continuing investigations into the composition, history, and processes of the earth's crust and the application of this knowledge to man's activities and (2) to be used by teachers with little or no previous background in the…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Geographic Location, Geology, Instructional Materials
Stoever, Edward C., Jr. – 1979
Crustal Evolution Education Project (CEEP) modules were designed to: (1) provide students with the methods and results of continuing investigations into the composition, history, and processes of the earth's crust and the application of this knowledge to man's activities and (2) to be used by teachers with little or no previous background in the…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Geographic Location, Geology, Instructional Materials
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of General Education Curriculum Development. – 1977
This syllabus begins with a list of program objectives and performance criteria for the study of three general topic areas in earth science and a list of 22 science processes. Following this information is a listing of concepts and understandings for subtopics within the general topic areas: (1) the earth's surface--surface features, rock…
Descriptors: Cartography, Course Descriptions, Earth Science, Elementary School Science
