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Cheplick, G. P. – Journal of Biological Education, 2021
A complex terminology developed around the evolutionary concept of adaptation. One definition of adaptation is synonymous with adaptive evolution and denotes a process of population change driven by natural selection resulting in individuals better able to survive and reproduce in a particular environment (compared to the population before the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Evolution, Scientific Concepts, Genetics
Wang, Fei – Physics Teacher, 2022
The ideal gas law, "PV = nRT," is one of the simplest physical laws in nature that is introduced to students as early as in high school and first year in college. In this equation, "P" stands for pressure, "V" is the volume, "n" is the amount expressed in mole, "T" is the temperature in Kelvin…
Descriptors: Physics, Scientific Principles, Fuels, Graphs
Deborah Hanuscin; Emily Borda; Josie Melton; Jamie N. Mikeska – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2025
Research on teacher educators' professional learning has gained increasing interest within science education. Curriculum materials have been suggested as a means of supporting "teacher" learning for several decades but have not yet been examined as a potential tool for supporting the learning of "teacher educators." In this…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Instructional Materials, Teacher Educators, Preservice Teachers
Babaian, Caryn; Kumar, Sudhir – American Biology Teacher, 2020
Evolutionary evidence is important scientific background for appreciating the theory of evolution. We describe a STEAM-based lesson plan that uses paleontological drawings and a modern evolutionary database to explore and understand fossil, morphological, and molecular evidence. Together, with a focus on arthropods and the Cambrian explosion,…
Descriptors: Molecular Biology, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Evolution
Grapin, Scott; Haas, Alison; Goggins, Marcelle; Llosa, Lorena; Lee, Okhee – Science and Children, 2019
The "Next Generation Science Standards" ("NGSS") call for a high level of classroom discourse (Lee, Quinn, and Valdés 2013). To engage all students, including English learners (ELs), in this form of discourse, educators have turned to talk moves (e.g., "Say more about that"), defined as general-purpose tools for…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Discussion (Teaching Technique), English Language Learners
Rayner-Canham, Geoff; Rayner-Canham, Marelene – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015
Though guided-inquiry learning, discovery learning, student-centered learning, and problem-based learning are commonly believed to be recent new approaches to the teaching of chemistry, in fact, the concept dates back to the late 19th century. Here, we will show that it was the British chemist, Henry Armstrong, who pioneered this technique,…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Educational History
Belland, Brian R.; Gu, Jiangyue; Armbrust, Sara; Cook, Brant – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
In this conceptual paper, we propose an heuristic to balance context-specific and generic scaffolding, as well as computer-based and teacher scaffolding, during instruction centered on authentic, scientific problems. This paper is novel in that many researchers ask a dichotomous question of whether generic or context-specific scaffolding is best,…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Science Instruction, Inquiry, Active Learning
Coghlan, David – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2012
In Revans' learning formula, L = P + Q, Q represents "questioning insight", by which Revans means that insight comes out of the process of questioning programmed knowledge (P) in the light of experience. We typically focus on the content of an insight rather than on the act of insight. Drawing primarily on the work of Bernard Lonergan this paper…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Intuition, Scientific Methodology, Cognitive Processes
Janssen, Fred; Westbroek, Hanna; Doyle, Walter – Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
Amid calls for more practice-based teacher education, this article presents a concrete illustration of a practice-based bridging strategy for preparing high school biology teachers to enact open-inquiry labs. Open-inquiry labs were considered a core practice frame that served as a context for identifying core practices and for giving coherence to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biology, Science Instruction, Teacher Education
Devlin, J. F.; Brookfield, A.; Huang, B.; Schillig, P. C. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2012
The Domenico solution is a heuristic simplification of a solution to the transport equation. Although there is a growing consensus that the Domenico solution is undesirable for use in professional and research applications due to departures from exact solutions under certain conditions, it behaves well under conditions suitable for instruction.…
Descriptors: Equations (Mathematics), Heuristics, Geology, Science Instruction
Healy, Eamonn F. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2010
Although the presentation of quantum mechanics found in traditional textbooks is intellectually well founded, it suffers from a number of deficiencies. Specifically introducing quantum mechanics as a solution to the arcane dilemma, the ultraviolet catastrophe, does little to impress a nonscientific audience of the tremendous paradigmatic shift…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Heuristics, Quantum Mechanics, Science Instruction
Putti, Alice – Journal of Chemical Education, 2011
This paper discusses student attitudes and beliefs on using the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) in an advanced placement (AP) chemistry classroom. During the 2007 school year, the SWH was used in a class of 24 AP chemistry students. Using a Likert-type survey, student attitudes and beliefs on the process were determined. Methods for the study are…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Student Attitudes, Heuristics, Chemistry
Bhattacharyya, Pratip; Chakrabarti, Bikas K. – European Journal of Physics, 2008
We study different ways of determining the mean distance (r[subscript n]) between a reference point and its nth neighbour among random points distributed with uniform density in a D-dimensional Euclidean space. First, we present a heuristic method; though this method provides only a crude mathematical result, it shows a simple way of estimating…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Computation, Probability, Physics
Hassani, Sadri – European Journal of Physics, 2008
Students learn new abstract concepts best when these concepts are connected through a well-designed analogy, to familiar ideas. Since the concept of the relativistic spacetime distance is highly abstract, it would be desirable to connect it to the familiar Euclidean distance, but present the latter in such a way that it makes a transparent contact…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Science Instruction, Measurement Techniques, Heuristics
Poock, Jason R.; Burke, K. A.; Greenbowe, Thomas J.; Hand, Brian M. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2007
The analysis describes the effects of using the science writing heuristic (SWH) in the general chemistry laboratory on the students' academic performance. The technique has found to be extremely important factor in a student's learning process and achievement in science.
Descriptors: Science Laboratories, Heuristics, Academic Achievement, Chemistry
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