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Briitta Ollonen; Marjaana Kangas – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
This research focuses on exploring teacher motivational scaffolding and preschoolers motivational triggers in a playful learning project conducted in a Finnish preschool context. The aim of playful learning was to promote preschoolers' multiliteracy and digital skills in a news-making project. The participants were 17 preschoolers and their…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Student Motivation
Khalaily, Hassan – Online Submission, 2019
Previous studies have demonstrated the pedagogical advantages of alternative teaching methods (ATMs) such as project-based learning, exploratory learning, collaborative learning, and technology-integrated teaching. However, their actual implementation rate is low. The research question is which factors most influence teachers to apply ATMs. A…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Nontraditional Education, Teacher Education, Arabs
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Cattaneo, Kelsey Hood – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2017
Designing learning environments to incorporate active learning pedagogies is difficult as definitions are often contested and intertwined. This article seeks to determine whether classification of active learning pedagogies (i.e., project-based, problem-based, inquiry-based, case-based, and discovery-based), through theoretical and practical…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Theory Practice Relationship, Student Projects, Problem Based Learning
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Gao, Ruomei – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015
In a typical chemistry instrumentation laboratory, students learn analytical techniques through a well-developed procedure. Such an approach, however, does not engage students in a creative endeavor. To foster the intrinsic motivation of students' desire to learn, improve their confidence in self-directed learning activities and enhance their…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Instrumentation, Undergraduate Students, Independent Study
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Saslow Gomez, Sarah A.; Faurie-Wisniewski, Danielle; Parsa, Arlen; Spitz, Jeff; Spitz, Jennifer Amdur; Loeb, Nancy C.; Geiger, Franz M. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015
The classroom exercise outlined here is a self-directed assignment that connects students to the environmental contamination problem surrounding the DePue Superfund site. By connecting chemistry knowledge gained in the classroom with a real-world problem, students are encouraged to personally connect with the problem while simultaneously…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Assignments, Environmental Standards, Pollution
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Kalathaki, Maria – World Journal of Education, 2015
Greek school community emphasizes on the discovery direction of teaching methodology in the school Environmental Education (EE) in order to promote Education for the Sustainable Development (ESD). In ESD school projects the used methodology is experiential teamwork for inquiry based learning. The proposed tool checks whether and how a school…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Environmental Education, Evaluation Methods, Discovery Learning
Magro, Graça; de Carvalho, Joaquim Ramos; Marcelino, Maria José – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
History learning is many times considered dull and demotivating by young students. Probably this is due because the learning process is disconnected from these students' reality and experience. One possible way to overcome this state of matters is to use technology like mobile devices with georeferencing software and local history and heritage…
Descriptors: Local History, History Instruction, Learning Processes, Technology Uses in Education
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Achuonye, Keziah Akuoma – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
This descriptive survey is hinged on predominant teaching strategies in schools, implications for curriculum implementation in Mathematics, Science and Technology. Target population consisted of teachers in primary, secondary and tertiary schools. However, purposive sample of 900 respondents was drawn from the six BRACED states namely Bayelsa,…
Descriptors: Surveys, STEM Education, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Dalimonte, Cathy – Science and Children, 2013
In the STEM classroom, students can work in collaborative teams to build those essential skills needed for the 21st-century world. In project-based learning (PBL), teams of four to six students are often randomly selected to describe a realistic situation that may occur in today's workplace; this may be done by counting off in fours, fives,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Cooperative Learning, Problem Based Learning, Teamwork
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Herman, Chris – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Central to The Lab School model is Sally Smith's Club Methodology, the full immersion of students into a time period where historical information is learned through multi-sensory activities. While immersed, through the use of costumes and elaborately decorated classrooms, students are engaged in project-based learning. As the student's…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Laboratory Schools, Enrichment Activities, Learning Disabilities
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Kanbar, Nancy – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2012
The population growth together with the unsustainable consumption pattern is putting increasing stress on the planet's natural resources. The increasing realisation that humans are harming the environment is taking the form of a global movement intended to change behaviour towards sustainability, now recognised as a framework that links humans to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Arabs, Business Administration Education
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McClintock, Ruth M. – Mathematics Teacher, 1997
Presents a question designed to launch a discovery journey through conjecture, research, serendipitous encounters, proof, answers, and new questions. Reports some discoveries and suggests ways in which to incorporate this strategy into classrooms. Presents a geometry project that incorporates this problem-solving approach to mathematics. (JRH)
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Educational Strategies, Geometry, Mathematics Instruction
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Thomas, Anne – Mathematics in School, 1974
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Elementary School Mathematics, Experiential Learning, Instruction
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Hirst, K. E. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1981
This report describes several student investigations in an undergraduate mathematics degree course. (MP)
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Discovery Learning, Educational Research, Higher Education
Al-Balushi, Sulaiman Mohammed – Online Submission, 2006
Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences has provided educators with a new view of intelligence. It emphasizes that science, math and language are not the only ways to exhibit intelligence. People exhibit intelligence in many different ways. Each type of intelligence is as valuable as the others. Gardner classifies these intelligences…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Creativity, Discovery Learning, Perceptual Development
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