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Gould, Deena; Knowlton, Kathryn; Wylie, Ruth – Science and Children, 2021
This article describes an early childhood lesson that integrated science, technology, art, social studies, math, and language. The authors' students compared robots, programmed and created stories with robots, and became robot-inventors. They also imagined how their robot-creations might impact the world--a core idea related to Science, Technology…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, STEM Education, Robotics, Preschool Education
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Fegely, Alex; Winslow, Joseph; Lee, Cheng-Yuan; Rubbo, Louis J. – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2021
This article reports findings from an exploratory study investigating the effects of robotics professional development sessions in underserved middle schools in the southeastern United States. Eleven middle-level science and mathematics teachers from a high-needs school district received year-long training in robotics technology and instructional…
Descriptors: Robotics, Faculty Development, Science Instruction, Mathematics Instruction
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Dogan, Alev; Uluay, Gülsah – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2021
In the digital world, where robotics implementations are taking a place in educational processes with increasing acceleration, it is important that pre-service teachers gain competences in this field that addresses the needs of the future. From this point of view, the aim of this study is to design an activity process in which pre-service science…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Competencies
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Mitnik, Ruben; Recabarren, Matias; Nussbaum, Miguel; Soto, Alvaro – Computers & Education, 2009
Graphing is a key skill in the study of Physics. Drawing and interpreting graphs play a key role in the understanding of science, while the lack of these has proved to be a handicap and a limiting factor in the learning of scientific concepts. It has been observed that despite the amount of previous graph-working experience, students of all ages…
Descriptors: Graphs, Physics, Scientific Concepts, Robotics