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Natalie O'Neill – Irish Educational Studies, 2023
Internationally, second level curriculum policy for STEM education is concentrating its efforts on promoting curriculum-making pedagogies, with enquiry-based teaching and learning at the forefront of this change. Policy aspirations have not translated well into practice, evidenced by science practical lessons consistently being delivered as…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Secondary School Students
Margaret K. Meadows – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
This paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of an inquiry-based laboratory for sophomore-level organic chemistry into a mostly cookbook, existing laboratory curriculum. For the laboratory, students were required to generate their own procedures and use their own recorded data from prior laboratory assignments to identify an…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Inquiry, Laboratory Experiments, Chemistry
Hounshell, Alexandria G.; Farrell, Kaitlin J.; Carey, Cayelan C. – Education Sciences, 2021
Ecologists are increasingly using macrosystems approaches to understand population, community, and ecosystem dynamics across interconnected spatial and temporal scales. Consequently, integrating macrosystems skills, including simulation modeling and sensor data analysis, into undergraduate and graduate curricula is needed to train future…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Concept Formation, Ecology, Undergraduate Students
Whitworth, Brooke A.; Rubino-Hare, Lori; Boateng, Francis; Hamlin, Anne; Bloom, Nena E.; Nolan, Eric – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
The current study examined the effects of a nationally scaled up Professional Learning and Development (PLD) model on teachers' classroom implementation of the Geospatial Inquiry instructional framework. Geospatial Inquiry is defined as: asking and answering a research question through the analysis and communication of data that is linked to a…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Faculty Development, Geographic Concepts
Monsurat M. Lawal; Tugba G. Kucukkal – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
An undergraduate-level Computational Chemistry project was incorporated initially into a Physical Chemistry course and then into the laboratory curriculum in the subsequent application. Before the introduction of the project, the lectures covered quantum chemistry, spectroscopy, and kinetics while simultaneously including computational chemistry…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Computation, Active Learning
Akcanca, Nur – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2020
This study aimed to investigate teacher candidates' perspectives about the 'Basic Science in Primary Education' course which adopted inquiry-based instruction approach. The participants of this study consisted of 87 teacher candidates (18 males, 69 females) who continued their education in the Department of Primary School Teaching at Çanakkale…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Student Attitudes, Science Instruction, Elementary School Science
Van Heuvelen, Katherine M.; Daub, G. William; Hawkins, Lelia N.; Johnson, Adam R.; Van Ryswyk, Hal; Vosburg, David A. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2020
Insights and methods from the chemical sciences are directly relevant to global challenges such as climate change, renewable energy generation and storage, water purification, and food production. However, these connections are often opaque to students in general chemistry courses, who may get lost in the weeds of stoichiometry, VSEPR, and gas…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Relevance (Education), Chemistry, Science Instruction
Tate, Erika D.; Ibourk, Amal; McElhaney, Kevin W.; Feng, Mingyu – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2020
We examined the sophistication of middle school students' mechanistic explanations of genetics phenomena and how they interact with a technology-based explanation tool as they articulate and organize their ideas about the phenomena. We coordinated curriculum and assessment design frameworks to develop a middle school curriculum unit that engages…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Plants (Botany), Technology Uses in Education, Inquiry
Peterson, Bryanne – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2020
Watson and McMahon's (2005) work identified a need for research to examine the what and how of children's career development learning; this research is a start to answering that call, specifically focusing on STEM career interest as a precursor to development due to the current needs nationally for an increase in the STEM pipeline. This study…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Career Choice, Curriculum Development, Teaching Methods
Drayton, Brian; Bernstein, Debra; Schunn, Christian; McKenney, Susan – Science Education, 2020
This study examines and compares how developers designed two primary science curricula to support teacher adaptation and enable use of innovative materials at scale. The two cases--"Literacy Science" (a science and literacy curriculum for grades 2-5) and "Science as Inquiry" (a curriculum focused on matter for grades 3-5)--were…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Science Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Literacy Education
Dolenc, Nathan R.; Beaulieu, Patricia; Sheppard, Peter – Research Issues in Contemporary Education, 2020
Teachers were given the challenging task of transferring their formal science classroom lessons to an online format at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. How were teachers able to recreate student-centered science lessons online? What challenges did teachers face in teaching science online? This study examined how a group of teachers, working to…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Science Instruction, Electronic Learning, Distance Education
Wolfe, Zora M. – Childhood Education, 2019
As educators seek to engage students in their learning, inquiry-based teaching can be an effective approach for transforming teaching. The result is a transformative shift in learning for students and teachers alike.
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Inquiry, Learner Engagement, Science Instruction
Akuma, Fru Vitalis; Callaghan, Ronel – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
Around the world, there have been curricula reforms involving the incorporation of the inquiry-based teaching and learning strategy in secondary school science education in general and in practical work in particular. Research in inquiry-based practical work (IBPW) has focused, for example, on aspects of the strategy itself, on teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Faculty Development
Ediger, Marlow – Education, 2018
There are vital topics in science teaching and learning which are mentioned frequently in the literature. Specialists advocate their importance in the curriculum as well as science teachers stress their saliency. Inservice education might well assist new and veteran teachers in knowledge and skills. The very best science lessons and units of…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Curriculum, Science Achievement, Curriculum Development
Wheeler, Lindsay B.; Clark, Charles P.; Grisham, Charles M. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2017
Laboratory course redesign and effective implementation of an inquiry-based curriculum can be challenging, particularly when teaching assistants (TAs) are responsible for instruction. Our multiyear redesign of a traditional general chemistry laboratory course has included transitioning to a project based guided inquiry (PBGI) curriculum that…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Laboratories, Chemistry, Science Experiments