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Download full textCarrejo, David J.; Reinhartz, Judy – Middle School Journal, 2014
Engaging students in both hands-on and minds-on experiences is needed for education that is relevant and complete. Many middle school students enter science classrooms with pre-conceived ideas about their world. Some of these ideas are misconceptions that hinder students from developing accepted concepts in science, such as those related to…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Science Education, Middle School Teachers, Concept Teaching
Green, Sammy Joe – 1972
This study was designed to determine if students taking junior high school science would receive greater understanding and retention of science principles and procedures from the Earth Science Curriculum Project (ESCP) than would students taught grneral science via the lecture-demonstration method. No attempt was made to group the students (28 in…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Discovery Learning, Doctoral Dissertations, Earth Science
Smith, Edward L.; Anderson, Charles W. – 1983
This study is part of a larger study of teachers' use of curriculum materials in planning and teaching fifth-grade science. The study focused on one of nine teachers observed teaching "Communities," an activity-based unit from the SCIIS science program (a revision of the original Science Curriculum Improvement Study).…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biological Sciences, Case Studies, Concept Formation
