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Metin, Duygu; Ertepinar, Hamide – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2016
The purposes of the present study are to elicit pre-service elementary science teachers' scientific and pseudoscientific beliefs about earthquake and to make inferences about their understandings of science. Although the subject of earthquake is not a pseudoscientific area, some pseudoscientific beliefs related to earthquake were used in this…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Instruction, Science Education, Science Teachers
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Saunders, Cheston; Taylor, Amy – Science Teacher, 2014
Pollution is not a problem we just read about anymore. It affects the air we breathe, the land we live on, and the water we consume. After noticing a lack of awareness in students, a lesson was developed that used Google Earth to pinpoint sources of pollution in the local area and in others across the country, and their effects on the surrounding…
Descriptors: Pollution, Educational Technology, Ecology, Misconceptions