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Download full textMaranan, Veronique M. – Online Submission, 2017
This study focused on the correlation of mastery in basic process skills and attitude toward Science to grade 7 students' performance. From the 200 respondents 74% or most of the students are normally in the age bracket for Grade 7 students which is 11 to 12. One hundred one (101) respondents or 50.5 % of the total respondents are male while 99…
Descriptors: Science Process Skills, Scientific Attitudes, Grade 7, Science Achievement
Puentes, Christina – Online Submission, 2007
Students in elementary classrooms are not receiving science instruction that is engaging and challenging. The review of the literature indicates that the way that the information is presented has more of an impact on the students than simply whether they comprehend the information. Studies show that hands-on science instruction allows success…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Textbooks, Educational Strategies, Hands on Science
Lyttle, Catherine Cummings – 1982
A study examined the effects of using a form of children's literature known as tradebooks on students' science achievement and attitudes. Subjects were 47 fourth grade children. For 6 weeks the experimental and control groups progressed through the objectives of a science unit on animal and plant populations. The control group used the textbook…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Childrens Literature, Content Area Reading, Elementary School Science
Taggart, Raymond F. – 1994
Meteorology, the science of weather and weather conditions, has traditionally been taught via textbook and rote demonstration. This study was intended to determine to what degree utilizing technology in the study of meteorology improves students' attitudes towards science and to measure to what extent technology in meteorology increases…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Technology, Elementary School Students, Grade 6
George, Theresa H. – 1987
This study is a qualitative investigation into a teenager's view of the nature of science. This thesis draws on arguments from various philosophies of science and describes the data collection techniques employed. The data are presented in eight categories which are assumed to be related to the notion of "truth" that is central to this…
Descriptors: Credibility, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Information Sources
Schwartz, Denece Gleed – 1987
Environmental education provides an interdisciplinary approach to connect various curriculum areas, such as science, mathematics, social studies, and reading. This study sought to discover if intermediate grade students who had instruction in environmental education were more positive toward the school curriculum than those who have not. Fourteen…
Descriptors: Ecology, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Environmental Education
