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Murphy, Colette; Mullaghy, Mary; D'Arcy, Alice – School Science Review, 2016
Research globally has shown that many children lose interest in science towards the end of primary school and throughout the post-primary phase. This article explores children's experience and views in Irish schools that have adopted innovative practices that aim to empower, excite and inspire children in science. One of these focuses on explicit…
Descriptors: Scientists, Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Instructional Innovation
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Marshall, Stephanie Pace – NASSP Bulletin, 1998
Because continuous learning and knowledge generation are core competencies in our ability to resolve the problems facing us as a world community, we must reject the efficiency model and embrace the emerging model of learning. Current schooling structures are counter to new brain/mind learning precepts. Learner-as-pioneer requires individuals to…
Descriptors: Brain, Experiments, Futures (of Society), Learning Processes
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Ivins, Jerry E. – Science Teacher, 1983
Suggests incorporating three-phase learning cycle into laboratory teaching to foster formal reasoning skills. Describes five types of laboratories, each of which offers experiences necessary for the initial phase of the learning cycle. Indicates importance of presenting concepts in a way that progresses from concrete to abstract. (JN)
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Learning Processes, Science Education, Science Experiments
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Johnstone, A. H. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 1991
Discusses difficulties of learning and teaching science at the secondary school level. Highlights include the nature of science concepts; multilevel thought; the use of scientific experiments; language problems; students' learning processes; and an information processing model that can be used to guide thinking and research in this area. (10…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Learning Processes, Models, Science Education
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Larsen, Janet D. – Teaching of Psychology, 1991
Describes a demonstration to illustrate the importance of knowing what is supposed to be learned before studying begins. Suggests that the exercise may be used to show the basic elements of a scientific experiment. Explains that attention's effect upon memory is shown by students' tendency to remember best what they are told to remember. (DK)
Descriptors: Attention, Demonstrations (Educational), Educational Psychology, Experiments
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Keys, Carolyn W.; Hand, Brian; Prain, Vaughn; Collins, Susan – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1999
Discusses preliminary research on a new heuristic tool for learning from laboratory activities in secondary science. Finds that use of the science writing heuristic facilitated students in generating meaning from data; making connections among procedures, data, evidence, and claims; and engaging in metacognition. (Contains 29 references.)…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Laboratory Experiments, Learning Processes, Science Activities
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Lunetta, Vincent N.; Tamir, Pinchas – Science Teacher, 1979
Discusses how laboratory activities can match science teaching goals. Analysis of two commonly used laboratory investigations in high school physics and biology are presented using a list of 24 skills and behaviors which are related to the processes of scientific inquiry and problem solving. (HM)
Descriptors: Biology, Cognitive Objectives, Educational Objectives, Inquiry
Minahan, Nancy M. – 1971
This booklet is intended to provide a number of experiments and demonstrations in each area of psychology which may be carried out in situations where the instructor wishes to provide class involvement and some understanding of experimental procedure, but does not have access to the apparatus generally used in experimental psychology. The 75…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Processes, Demonstrations (Educational), Experimental Psychology
Moody, David B. – 1974
The relative effectiveness of including behavioral objectives, classified according to the major levels of cognition, in independent study materials for high school juniors is analyzed in this brief summary of the author's dissertation. The three major questions under consideration are whether: (1) the use of behavioral objectives has an effect…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
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Pickering, Miles – Journal of Chemical Education, 1987
Discusses some of the difficulties involved with chemistry laboratory experiences and some laboratory manuals. Cites studies that indicate that part of the difficulty can be attributed to constraints relating to the short-term memory of the operational information and the assumption that students have a certain level of knowledge. (TW)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Chemistry, College Science, Higher Education
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Tinnesand, Michael; Chan, Alan – Science Teacher, 1987
Argues that cookbook chemistry laboratory experiments do little to teach scientific inquiry. Suggests providing students with laboratory experiences that follow the introduction of a concept and challenge students to investigate that concept through an experiment involving very few initial instructions. Lists some such challenges used in chemistry…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Inquiry, Laboratory Procedures, Learning Processes
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Silberman, Robert G.; Zipp, Arden P. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1986
Discusses the goals of learning cycle laboratories in helping students acquire knowledge about a specific topic and to do so moving in a non-threatening way from the concrete operational level to the formal operational level. Describes an experiment designed for such laboratories dealing with the topic of oxidation-reduction. (TW)
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Science, Higher Education, Laboratory Procedures