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Direct linkJohana Evelyn Montalvan Castilla – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2025
In the quest to tackle complex societal and environmental challenges, Norway stands as one of the nations that are increasingly incorporating and transitioning to renewable and green energy solutions, particularly solar energy and technologies. In this context, science and technology education, starting from an early age, have been highlighted as…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Elementary School Science, Energy, Technology
Ying-Chih Chen; Jongchan Park; Jamie G. Rapkiewcz – American Biology Teacher, 2024
Productive struggle is a process in which students expend effort to grapple with perplexing problems and make sense of something that is not immediately apparent and beyond their current level of understanding and capacity. The experience encourages students to reflect on and restructure their existing knowledge toward a new understanding of…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Biology, Science Education, Teaching Methods
Qi Si; Jee K. Suh; Jale Ercan-Dursun; Brian Hand; Gavin W. Fulmer – International Journal of Science Education, 2025
Language is a fundamental tool for learning science. This study highlights the importance of teacher knowledge in utilising language as a tool for knowledge generation in the classrooms. This case study examines elementary teachers' development of declarative, procedural, and epistemic knowledge related to using language, particularly focusing on…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Epistemology, Knowledge Level, Elementary School Science
He Zhou Breunig – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examines students' social-emotional experience with knowledge building pedagogy from the lenses of grit and growth mindset. The goal of this dissertation is to understand how interest, perseverance of effort and growth mindset oriented feedback engage students social emotionally in knowledge building to sustain and deepen their…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Learner Engagement, Knowledge Level, Skill Development
Stephen A. Biller – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research investigated the impact of a professional development program on enhancing fifth-grade environmental science teacher efficacy through place-based education (PBE) practices--the Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEE) Professional Development Training aimed to promote teacher engagement and increase pedagogical content…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Environmental Education, Elementary School Science, Teacher Effectiveness
Doabler, Christian T.; Therrien, William J.; Longhi, Maria A.; Roberts, Greg; Hess, Katherine E.; Maddox, Steven A.; Uy, Jasmine; Lovette, Gail E.; Fall, Anna-Maria; Kimmel, Georgia L.; Benson, Sarah; VanUitert, Victoria J.; Emily Wilson, Sarah; Powell, Sarah R.; Sampson, Victor; Toprac, Paul – Remedial and Special Education, 2021
This study, which was reviewed through the Registered Report process, examined the initial efficacy of the Scientific Explorers program (Sci2) on second-grade students' science achievement. Sci2 is grounded in the growing body of empirical research on science instruction, embedding principles of explicit instruction within a guided inquiry-based…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Grade 2, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction
Jin, Qingna; Kim, Mijung – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Students' difficulties in scientific argumentation have been widely reported in the literature. Researchers argue that these difficulties result mainly from students' lack of understanding of the goals and norms of argumentation. Therefore, designing and implementing appropriate instructional scaffolds to facilitate such essential knowledge of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Persuasive Discourse, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Metacognition
Bozzo, Giacomo; Lopez, Victor; Couso, Digna; Monti, Francesca – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
The role of virtual simulations in the evolution of primary school students' mental models about electrostatics is investigated by analysing the answers of two groups of 9-10 years old pupils inside instructional sequences that combine two hands-on activities using balloons and jackets with the same activities using PhET simulations: one group…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Schemata (Cognition), Computer Simulation
Download full textYuksel, Ibrahim; Eker, Merve – International Education Studies, 2021
This study aims to determine the knowledge levels in the Nature and History of Science course of the prospective teachers studying in the science education program and their views following the course. Six interview questions were asked to the pre-service teachers in the science education program about the Nature and History of Science course.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Knowledge Level
Nhlengethwa, Khanyisile Brenda; Govender, Nadaraj; Sibanda, Doras – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2020
Teachers' accurate understanding of Inquiry-Based Science Teaching (IBST) is crucial for the proper enactment of this pedagogical approach. In this research, a qualitative case study design was used to explore and interpret pre-service teachers' understanding of IBST at the conclusion of their three-year primary diploma at a university in…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Inquiry, Elementary School Teachers
Lederman, Judith; Lederman, Norman; Bartels, Selina; Jimenez, Juan; Akubo, Mark; Aly, Shereen; Bao, Chengcheng; Blanquet, Estelle; Blonder, Ron; Bologna Soares de Andrade, Mariana; Buntting, Catherine; Cakir, Mustafa; EL-Deghaidy, Heba; ElZorkani, Ahmed; Gaigher, Estelle; Guo, Shuchen; Hakanen, Arvi; Hamed Al-Lal, Soraya; Han-Tosunoglu, Cigdem; Hattingh, Annemarie; Hume, Anne; Irez, Serhat; Kay, Gillian; Kivilcan Dogan, Ozgur; Kremer, Kerstin; Kuo, Pi-Chu; Lavonen, Jari; Lin, Shu-Fen; Liu, Cheng; Liu, Enshan; Liu, Shiang-Yao; Lv, Bin; Mamlok-Naaman, Rachel; McDonald, Christine; Neumann, Irene; Pan, Yaozhen; Picholle, Eric; Rivero García, Ana; Rundgren, Carl-Johan; Santibáñez-Gómez, David; Saunders, Kathy; Schwartz, Renee; Voitle, Frauke; von Gyllenpalm, Jakob; Wei, Fangbing; Wishart, Jocelyn; Wu, Zhifeng; Xiao, Huang; Yalaki, Yalcin; Zhou, Qiaoxue – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
Although understandings of scientific inquiry (as opposed to conducting inquiry) are included in science education reform documents around the world, little is known about what students have learned about inquiry during their elementary school years. This is partially due to the lack of any assessment instrument to measure understandings about…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Middle School Students, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Tavares, Rita; Marques Vieira, Rui; Pedro, Luís – Education Sciences, 2021
This paper reports research work related to a wider study, aimed at developing a mobile app for Science Education in primary-school. Several studies reveal that Science Education can be improved by using technology, namely educational software. However, to promote a structured use of technology, innovative learning approaches must be designed for…
Descriptors: Science Education, Educational Technology, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
Tobin, Roger G.; Lacy, Sara J.; Crissman, Sally – AERA Open, 2021
In spring 2020, COVID-19 seismically shifted the education landscape as schooling moved online. We report a small-scale mixed-methods study of how that upheaval affected three-dimensional science learning in elementary school classrooms, and how the situation changed when school resumed, in modified form, in fall 2020. Teachers with experience in…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Science, COVID-19
Penny, Jude; Forster, Colin – Primary Science, 2018
In this article, Jude Penny and Colin Forster explore what makes a good question and how this links with developing science capital. This article outlines research that was undertaken with primary student teachers at the University of Gloucestershire, focusing on the development of their ability to deploy an appropriate number of carefully chosen…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Student Teachers
Khanlari, Ahmad; Zhu, Gaoxia; Scardamalia, Marlene – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2019
Interdisciplinary studies foster integration of ideas across disciplines. The knowledge building pedagogy, with its 12 principles and associated technology, Knowledge Forum®, provides multifaceted support for linking ideas across disciplines and communities. This exploratory study aims to assess the extent to which elementary-school students…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods, Knowledge Level
