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Download full textManuela Tripepi; Hannah M. Schapiro – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2024
This paper presents two low-cost hands-on activities designed to enhance student understanding and address the pedagogical challenges faced by microbiology professors in teaching concepts related to cell structure and gene regulation. In the first activity, we used Shrinky Dinks and Jeopardy-style game questions to explore the differences between…
Descriptors: Science Education, Microbiology, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Direct linkHuinan Liu; Bo Chen; Sihui Huang; Songting Yao; Wenqi Zhao; Ziyin Li – Science & Education, 2025
The diversity of scientific methods has received widespread attention and recognition in recent years. Brandon's Matrix illustrated four categories of scientific methods, which was applied to establish the analytical framework of this study. This paper adopted content analysis to investigate how the diversity of scientific methods is represented…
Descriptors: Science Education, Chemistry, Scientific Methodology, Foreign Countries
Zer Vue; Chia Vang; Celestine N. Wanjalla; Andrea G. Marshall; Kit Neikirk; Dominique Stephens; Sulema Perales; Edgar Garza-Lopez; Heather K. Beasley; Annet Kirabo; Yelena Janumyan Doe; Desmond Campbell; Letimicia Fears; Ahmad Alghanem; Estevão Scudese; Beverly Owens; Derrick J. Morton; Clintoria R. Williams; Zachary Conley; Hinton Antentor Jr. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2024
Physiology is an important field for students to gain a better understanding of biological mechanisms. Yet, many students often find it difficult to learn from lectures, resulting in poor retention. Here, we utilize a learning workshop model to teach students at different levels ranging from middle school to undergraduate. We specifically designed…
Descriptors: Workshops, Physiology, Science Education, Hands on Science
Martin Schwichow; Anastasios Zoupidis – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
Floating and sinking (FS) is a key topic in science education, both at primary and secondary levels. The interpretation of FS phenomena, however, is challenging due to the difficulty of the scientific concepts and explanatory models involved (e.g., density, buoyancy), along with students' everyday experiences, which conflict with scientific…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Science Education, Meta Analysis, Effect Size
Pelin Köseoglu; Hakan Türkmen – Online Submission, 2023
The main purpose of this study is to determine what teachers and academicians think about the process of designing and implementing science activities in informal settings and make suggestions as to how to teach more effectively in them. This study is a cross-sectional survey study and divided the teachers constituting the sample group into…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Instructional Design, Science Activities, Science Education
Deon T. Miles – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
Students in a typical instrumental analysis course may learn more than 30 analytical techniques. There are more than 150 components associated with the instrumentation that they learn. To help students organize this large amount of information, we classified these components into four categories: sources, samples, discriminators, and detectors. In…
Descriptors: Pictorial Stimuli, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Science Education
Patrick W. Fedick; Aimee M. Bryan; Robert D. Smith; Jessica S. Austin; Brittland K. DeKorver – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
Motivational hands-on workshops for grade-school level future scientists are needed to inspire young and receptive minds. Described here is an educational event, titled "Inspiring Future Rocket Chemists", with hands-on laboratory exercises demonstrating the fundamentals of rocket flight and live chemistry demonstrations illustrating the…
Descriptors: Hands on Science, Science Education, Workshops, Elementary Education
Zahra Hasani Yourdshahi; Kajsa Yang Hansen; Linda Borger – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2025
Background: Science skills play a crucial role in fostering economic development and technological innovation, making the enhancement of science education a global priority. Despite the recognized importance of teacher practices in enhancing equitable and effective learning, much of the research on their impact on student outcomes has been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 8, Secondary School Science
Shannon L. W. Accettone; Cassandra DeFrancesco; Lori Van Belle; Joel Smith; Erin Giroux – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
The ability of students to perform quantitative analysis is a fundamental aspect of analytical chemistry courses and laboratories. In this laboratory experiment, students quantitatively analyze both liquid and solid samples through the use of internal standard calibration and ATR-FTIR spectroscopy. Using a problem-based approach to selecting their…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Science Education, Problem Solving
Jeppsson, Fredrik; Danielsson, Kristina; Bergh Nestlog, Ewa; Tang, Kok-Sing – Education Sciences, 2022
Worksheets are common in science classrooms with an aim to support pupils' meaning-making, e.g., for guiding them in performing hands-on activities and documenting their experiences of such activities. Yet, there have been few systematic studies of pupils' disciplinary representations in worksheets. Drawing on systemic functional linguistics, we…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Science Education, Worksheets, Hands on Science
Karla Newman; Naomi L. Stock – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, most courses at universities in many countries transitioned to a remote format for the 2020-21 academic year. This presented additional challenges for courses taught with a hands-on component. Here we describe the implementation of a take-home activity kit and laboratory demonstrations to facilitate hands-on…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Science Education, Teaching Methods, Graduate Study
Michelle B. Tindall – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study investigates the challenge faced by eighth-grade students at Southern State Middle School in grasping abstract concepts within the domains of physical science, physics, and chemistry. This difficulty is manifested in their poor performance on summative assessments. A comprehensive analysis of state-provided data, in conjunction with…
Descriptors: Science Laboratories, Laboratory Experiments, Hands on Science, Summative Evaluation
Maja Planinic; Katarina Jelicic; Karolina Matejak Cvenic; Ana Susac; Lana Ivanjek – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Wave optics is a mandatory part of Croatian secondary school physics curriculum for students in the final year of secondary school (age 18-19). Many physics education research studies have shown that it is a difficult physics topic for both university and secondary school students. An inquiry-based teaching sequence on wave optics, designed for…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Secondary School Science, Physics, Scientific Concepts
Chen, X. Mara – Geography Teacher, 2021
Both critical thinking and creative thinking have been essential in building and reshaping human civilization and intellectual landscapes. Teaching aims to educate and train students to become competent, creative, and critical thinkers. An overarching educational goal is that students should be able to collect and analyze data, build knowledge,…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Earth Science, Science Education
Suero Montero, Calkin; Oliveira Leite, Lais – Journal of Teaching and Learning, 2022
The European Commission calls for schools to move towards becoming open to their communities, integrating external social, civil, and expert stakeholders into authentic learning experiences' development alongside teachers and students, particularly in terms of science education. However, little research or practical implementation has been…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Science Education, Science Instruction, Educational Cooperation
