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A Metaconceptually-Enriched Argumentation Activity for Creating the Scientific Understanding: Example of Simple Electrical Circuits
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Seda Altunsoy Okvuran; Nejla Yürük – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2024
Argumentation plays a central role in the development and justification of scientific knowledge. Learners could attain a more scientifically acceptable conceptual understanding by attending argumentation-based discussions. During argumentation-based discussions, students need to activate some metacognitive processes related to concept learning,…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Electronic Equipment
Student Uncertainty as a Pedagogical Resource (SUPeR) Approach for Developing a New Era of Science Literacy: Practicing and Thinking Like a Scientist
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Ying-Chih Chen; Michelle Jordan – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2024
Student Uncertainty as Pedagogical Resource (SUPeR) is a teaching approach that science teachers can use to promote student scientific literacy, practice, and learning. SUPeR helps students navigate scientific uncertainty to improve understanding of scientific concepts and phenomena. The SUPeR approach consists of four phases: (1) problematize a…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Lesson Plans, Scientific Literacy, Teaching Methods
Making Homemade Indicator and Strips: A STEM + Activity for Acid-Base Chemistry with Entrepreneurship Applications
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Aydin-Günbatar, Sevgi – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2020
Recent reforms have introduced integrated science, technology, engineering, and math education (STEM) that has highlighted an interdisciplinary approach to train students as better problem solvers. In addition to STEM disciplines, art, language, and other disciplines integration are also stressed (STEM+). In this paper, a STEM+ (STEM + art +…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Chemistry, Art Activities, Preservice Teacher Education
A Different Way of Teaching the Reflection of Light: Using the Clock Model
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Cengiz, Ekrem – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2018
The goal of this study is to present and evaluate a different way of teaching concepts related to the reflection of light (incident beam, reflecting beam, angle of incidence, angle of reflection, surface, regular reflection, and diffuse reflection). The participants were 42 sixth-grade students (between the ages of 11 and 12) attending a public…
Descriptors: Reflection, Light, Grade 6, Middle School Students
Creating a Bubble…and an Understanding of Scientific Practices
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Ashmann, Scott; Gichobi, Mary – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2018
The use of creativity in science practices is many times lost on secondary students. Creativity is seen as something central to the arts and humanities, but tangential at best in the sciences. However, an examination of many great scientific discoveries and the work of everyday contemporary scientists shows the depth and breadth of the use of…
Descriptors: Creativity, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, Secondary School Students
Universal Design for Learning-Representation and Science Content: A Pathway to Expanding Knowledge, Understanding, and Written Explanations
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Finnegan, Lisa A.; Dieker, Lisa A. – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2019
The need for all students to develop a stronger ability to express their science knowledge in writing is important. In this article, the authors take you on a journey in an elementary school classroom with tools to help foster deeper learning and stronger writing skills in science content. With many students in high school required to pass…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction, Concept Mapping