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Peer reviewedHansen, Thor A.; Kelley, Patricia H.; Hall, Jack C. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2003
Describes the Moonsnail Project, which engages middle school students in discovery learning and the process of science by making them collaborators with scientists in the investigation of genuine scientific hypotheses. Reports on the first workshop held in summer 2001 and a scientific conference held in summer 2002 that provided vehicles for the…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Curriculum Design, Ecology, Middle Schools
Direct linkEnyedy, Noel; Goldberg, Jennifer – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2004
In this study, we seek a better understanding of how individuals and their daily interactions shape and reshape social structures that constitute a classroom community. Moreover, we provide insight into how discourse and classroom interactions shape the nature of a learning community, as well as which aspects of the classroom culture may be…
Descriptors: Science Programs, Interaction, Educational Change, Science Education
