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Direct linkConnolly, Tarah; Skinner, Ron; Harlow, Danielle – Science and Children, 2019
Engaging students in conversations around science and engineering design can be challenging. Sparking such conversations during field trips at an interactive science center has additional challenges. First, students vary considerably in age from day to day: science center employees might work with first graders one day and sixth graders the next.…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Science Education, Engineering, Design
Download full textOtt, Laura E.; Carpenter, Tara S.; Hamilton, Diana S.; LaCourse, William R. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2018
It is well established that active learning results in greater gains in student conceptual knowledge and retention compared to traditional modes of teaching. However, active learning can be very difficult to implement in a large-enrollment course due to various course and institutional barriers. Herein, we describe the development and…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Active Learning, Large Group Instruction, Science Instruction
Swensen, Kaja Vembe; Silseth, Kenneth; Krange, Ingeborg – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
In this paper, we will present and discuss data from a research project called MIRACLE, in which high school students learned about energy and energy transformation in a technology-rich learning environment. This learning environment spanned across a classroom, a science center, and an online platform specially designed to support coherence across…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication, Science Education, Energy Education
Nayfeld, Irena; Brenneman, Kimberly; Gelman, Rochel – Early Education and Development, 2011
Research Findings: This paper reports on children's use of science materials in preschool classrooms during their free choice time. Baseline observations showed that children and teachers rarely spend time in the designated science area. An intervention was designed to "market" the science center by introducing children to 1 science…
Descriptors: Intervention, Measures (Individuals), Science Materials, Science Instruction
