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Li, Linlin; Mahrer, Ben; Weiser, Gary; Orenstein, Ari; Chow, Eunice; Atienza, Sara – WestEd, 2019
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the Twin Cities Public Television (TPT) Ready to Learn project, "Hero Elementary," has an emphasis on reaching Latino communities and supporting the needs of children with disabilities. The project embeds the expectations of kindergarten to 2nd grade science standards into a series of…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Students with Disabilities, Primary Education, Science Education
Grindal, Todd; Silander, Megan; Gerard, Sarah; Maxon, Tiffany; Garcia, Elisa; Hupert, Naomi; Vahey, Phil; Pasnik, Shelley – Education Development Center, Inc., 2019
This study's goal was to understand the extent to which providing access to media resources focused on critical science and engineering concepts can help children living in low-income households learn. The resources examined were from the PBS KIDS multi-platform property "The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!" Researchers found that…
Descriptors: Educational Media, Educational Television, Childrens Literature, Video Games
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Kermani, Hengameh; Aldemir, Jale – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
The purpose of the present study was to study if purposeful math, science, and technology curriculum projects and activities would support Pre-K children's performance in these subject matter areas. In this study, 58 Pre-K children from 4 Pre-K classrooms in a public Pre-K programme in North Carolina participated. Through a quasi-experimental,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Quasiexperimental Design, Pretests Posttests, Intervention
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Ward, R. Bruce; Sadler, Philip M.; Shapiro, Irwin I. – Astronomy Education Review, 2008
We report on an evaluation of the effectiveness of Project ARIES, an astronomy-based physical science curriculum for upper elementary and middle school children. ARIES students use innovative, simple, and affordable apparatus to carry out a wide range of indoor and outdoor hands-on, discovery-based activities. Student journals and comprehensive…
Descriptors: Student Journals, Grade 4, Grade 3, Teaching Methods