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Valeria Edelsztein; Claudio Cormick – Science & Education, 2025
In this article, we tackle the phenomenon of what seems to be a misunderstanding between science education theory and philosophy of science--one which does not seem to have received any attention in the literature. While there seems to be a consensus within the realm of science education on limiting or altogether denying the explanatory role of…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Scientific Concepts, Science Education, Epistemology
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Phil Seok Oh; Heesoo Ha – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Current science education reform efforts have identified sensemaking as an important goal of science education, and science education researchers have studied what constitutes the sensemaking process in the science classroom. Because the studies of sensemaking are loosely linked to those of scientific reasoning, however, they have provided little…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Scientific Literacy
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Wenyuan Yang; Sihang Chen; Cheng Liu – American Biology Teacher, 2024
Modeling is a core practice in science and is a meaningful way to learn the subject. This article introduces a modeling-based approach that highlights the idea that modeling is an iterative process and integrates the fundamental parts of scientists' work and key suggestions for teaching through modeling. The lesson "The Structure and Function…
Descriptors: Models, Middle School Students, Biology, Science Instruction
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Amy D. Robertson; Lisa M. Goodhew; Lauren C. Bauman; Brynna Hansen; Anne T. Alesandrini – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Qualitative Methods in PER: A Critical Examination.] Identifying student ideas about particular physics topics is one of the earliest and longest-standing foci of physics education research. This paper presents a method for identifying common conceptual resources for understanding physics, using…
Descriptors: Physics, Scientific Concepts, Science Process Skills, Science Tests
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Marie-Jetta den Otter; Alma Kuijpers; Michiel Dam; Ludo Juurlink; Fred Janssen – Research in Science Education, 2024
Chemical reasoning, and in particular structure--property reasoning, is an important goal of chemistry education. Johnstone's triangle (1982, 1991) is often used to explicate this type of reasoning. This triangle describes the multilevel thought chemical reasoning requires and shows why students find chemistry so difficult. However, this model…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Thinking Skills, Scientists, Chemistry
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Anoshia Khan; Cristina Altamirano; Yousuf Khan; Haroon Saeed; Tyler Moreira; Troy T. Handlovic; Mohammed R. Elshaer; Justin A. Bogart – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
Many of the current synthetic methodologies utilized within academic and industrial laboratories require knowledge of how to safely handle air- and moisture-sensitive reagents and work under inert atmospheres. As a result, the ACS Committee on Professional Training recommends incorporating synthetic methods that make use of these inert atmospheres…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Chemistry, Science Process Skills
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Mattox, Stephen R.; Duda, Stephanie – Science Teacher, 2022
Permafrost is any soil or surface deposit in an Arctic or alpine region at some depth below the surface at which the temperature has remained below zero degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit) continuously for a long period of time. The amount of carbon dioxide and methane stored in permafrost is nearly twice the amount in the atmosphere and, as…
Descriptors: Models, Scientific Concepts, Earth Science, Science Activities
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Reiss, Michael J.; Winterbottom, Mark – School Science Review, 2023
The third edition of the ASE's "Teaching Secondary Biology" sets out a vision for teaching and learning biology. Learning biology is not about learning the contents of a textbook. It is about conceptual learning, learning what it means to do biology and learning what it means to be a biologist. Our hope is that "Teaching Secondary…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, Biology, Scientific Concepts
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Cedric Loretan; Andreas Mu¨ller – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
The activity presented here is about an approximate or order-of-magnitude approach to information technology on the nano level, dealing in particular with the genetic code. Based on "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom", the famous and visionary paper by Richard Feynman, the activity provides insight into a core concept of nanoscience…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Secondary School Science, High School Students, Science Activities
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Sternberg, Robert J.; Ehsan, Hoda; Ghahremani, Mehdi – Roeper Review, 2022
In this article, we present a hierarchical model for teaching scientific thinking to gifted students. This article follows up on an article published 40 years ago in this journal. The problem now, as 40 years ago, is that gifted students often are taught science courses at a more intensive level, but without their truly learning how to think…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Gifted Education, Science Education, Knowledge Level
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David C. Owens – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2025
Elementary students learn best when they make observations about perplexing natural phenomena, ask questions about what they observed, and pursue answers to their own questions through engagement in science practice. However, facilitating such learning experiences can be challenging for novice instructors. In this unit, pre-service elementary…
Descriptors: Science Education, Lunar Research, Astronomy, Elementary School Students
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Lynch, Hailey N.; Harnage, Austin H.; Liyana Pathiranage, Anuradha – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
The aldol condensation reaction is one of the many synthesis reactions carried out in second semester organic chemistry laboratories. This reaction was integrated into a novel experiment requiring students to synthesize dibenzalace tone derivatives using the crossed-aldol condensation by reacting different types of benzaldehyde derivatives with…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Science Experiments, Measurement
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Joshua W. Reid; Michael L. Rutledge – Bioscene: Journal of College Biology Teaching, 2022
We developed and field-tested an active learning exercise designed to provide biology students with the opportunity to consider key aspects of the nature of science as a method of inquiry, particularly the roles of observation and inference in the development of scientific explanations and how scientists deal with uncertainty. In the activity…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Biology, Science Instruction, Scientific Principles
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Richards, A. J. – Physics Teacher, 2020
As students learn physics, they are often required to reason about the behavior of macroscopic and microscopic phenomena, and to synthesize prior knowledge from several different areas of physics to construct understanding of new ideas. This can be a tremendously difficult cognitive task for novice students, especially when the unfamiliar…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Visualization, Science Process Skills
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Nanette J. Tomicek; Patrick Cafferty; Janet Casagrand; Elizabeth Co; Meg Flemming; Jenny McFarland; Valerie O'Loughlin; Derek Scott; Dee U. Silverthorn – Advances in Physiology Education, 2024
Learning outcomes are an essential element in curriculum development because they describe what students should be able to do by the end of a course or program and they provide a roadmap for designing assessments. This article describes the development of competency-based learning outcomes for a one-semester undergraduate introductory human…
Descriptors: Physiology, Scientific Concepts, Vocabulary, Inclusion
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