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Carone, Delaney; Perkins, Ashley; Scott, Catherine – Science and Children, 2023
This lesson focuses specifically on teaching concepts of speed and its impact on energy, as well as providing a basic introduction to potential and kinetic energy to fourth-grade students. "Next Generation Science Standards" ("NGSS") 4-PS3-1 states that students should be able "to use evidence to construct an explanation…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Science Instruction, Energy, Scientific Concepts
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Jihoon Kang; Jina Kim – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2024
While existing studies have underscored the educational benefits of generating explanatory hypotheses (EHs) in response to unexpected outcomes, empirical research on the underlying mechanisms driving their effectiveness in science learning remains limited. Thus, this study aimed to empirically examine the effectiveness of generating an EH for…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Learning Processes, Protocol Analysis, Scientific Concepts
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Bogdanovic, Ivana Z.; Stanisavljevic, Jelena D.; Rodic, Dušica D.; Roncevic, Tamara N.; Zouhor, Zekri A. M. – South African Journal of Education, 2022
To make it easier for students to learn the contents of physics and increase their motivation to learn, physics teachers need to apply different teaching strategies. With this study we aimed to examine the impact of the modified Know-Want-Learn (mKWL) strategy in physics teaching on elementary school students' metacognition. The pedagogical…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Teachers
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Walldén, Robert – Classroom Discourse, 2022
This article concerns the relationship between general literacy skills and engagement with subject-specific content in classroom practice. The aim is to contribute knowledge about how enactment of reading strategies impacts classroom discussions about science texts. For 10 weeks, the researcher conducted observations and audio recordings of…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Science Instruction, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
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Yeo, Jun-Hui; Cho, I.-Hsuan; Hwang, Gwo-Haur; Yang, Hsi-Hsun – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2022
Gender and prior knowledge may affect students' performance and motivation when simulations and games are used for learning. Accommodations should be made for students of different genders and with different levels of prior knowledge. A simulation digital game about the food chain concept geared for elementary school students was developed for…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Prior Learning, Food, Biology
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Kelsi J. Arends; Kathleen Fonseca – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2024
Background: Although the reading of science texts has been reported for high school learners, there is not much research on how younger learners engage with expository texts and how they develop academic language skills. In the instance of this study, the topic came from the curriculum content about animal reproduction. Aim: The study from which…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Word Recognition, Reading, Language Skills
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Brown, Patrick – Science and Children, 2019
Students come to class with ideas about science content and the practices used to generate knowledge. Their lived experience provides them with basic ideas about how the world works. Tapping into their innate understandings and testing their ideas allows them to construct a more accurate understanding. Research shows that all students are ready to…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Scientific Concepts, Energy
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Kaçar, Sevinç; Ormanci, Ümmühan; Özcan, Erkan; Balim, Ali Günay – Journal of Inquiry Based Activities, 2020
This study aimed to present a module related to the use of concept cartoons integrated into problem-based learning (PBL) method in science lessons. As part of the study, concept cartoons were developed based on scenarios dealing with daily life situations. A module was designed using these concept cartoons. The module focused on the topic…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Problem Based Learning, Heat, Concept Teaching
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Chang, Tzyh-Lee; Hsin, Huai-Tzu – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2021
Background: Being able to think independently is a must for students to construct new knowledge in their minds. Self-explaining is a constructive learning strategy that encourages students to think for themselves and to make inferences that go beyond the given information. The Self-explain--Discuss--Re-explain (SDR) strategy adapted from…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Instructional Effectiveness, Science Instruction, Science Achievement
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Labak, Irena; Sertic Peric, Mirela; Radanovic, Ines – Education Sciences, 2021
The objective of this study was to investigate whether the class scheduling of Nature and Biology classes in blocks results in better learning success for primary school students, and whether this depends on the average student success rate (i.e., student performance categories), age, or prior knowledge. For this study, we have assumed that block…
Descriptors: Block Scheduling, Science Achievement, Science Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
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Bulunuz, Nermin – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2019
Formative assessment is a teaching method that helps to determine the prior knowledge of students, schedule the course plan accordingly, give it the final shape based on the feedback received from students, and encourage conceptual learning. The aim of this study is to introduce the "annotated student drawings" as one of the common…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Middle School Students
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Hestness, Emily; McGinnis, J. Randy; Breslyn, Wayne – Environmental Education Research, 2019
This case study applied sociocultural theory to examine the climate change ideas communicated by one group of middle school students (N = 39) in a suburban community on the U.S. East Coast. We investigated the ways in which students' participation in the sociocultural activities of their varied communities appeared to inform their understandings…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Student Participation, Climate
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Anderson, Janice L.; Smith, Diane; Corbat, Josh; Minshew, Lana; Madlangbayan, Melissa – Science and Children, 2016
Direct experience is a powerful learning and teaching tool. However, when trying to teach students about natural hazards such as earthquakes, direct experience is not the best idea. Depending on location, it might be difficult to help young students understand the impact of natural hazards on their lives. Students will naturally find it…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Natural Disasters, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
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Zekri A. M. Zouhor; Ivana Z. Bogdanovic; Sonja J. Skuban; Milica V. Pavkov-Hrvojevic – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2017
Physics is generally regarded as difficult and uninteresting. The teaching of physics with the use of an appropriate teaching strategy can improve students' achievement. The aim of this research is to examine the effect of the modified Know-Want-Learn (mKWL) strategy on primary school students' achievement in physics. The Know-Want-Learn (KWL)…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Elementary School Students, Science Achievement
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Rupley, William H.; Slough, Scott – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2010
Vocabulary knowledge is a salient factor influencing success both in and out of school. The specialized vocabulary knowledge in science represents the concept-laden hooks on which learning is hung and enables students to build prior knowledge through the expansion of these conceptual hooks. We have identified four levels of learners--struggling…
Descriptors: Science Activities, Textbooks, Second Language Learning, Prior Learning
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