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Direct linkPreston, Christine; McKie, Cassandra – Teaching Science, 2018
This article describes an inquiry science lesson that was sparked by a child's question. In this school a science specialist (author 1) team teaches science with the kindergarten class teacher (author 2) for 1 hour per week. The class teacher integrates science at other times during the week. To foster the kindergarteners' interest about a science…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Inquiry, Science Teachers, Kindergarten
Harlow, Danielle B.; Hansen, Alexandria K.; McBeath, Jasmine K.; Leak, Anne E. – Advances in STEM Education, 2018
Despite the potential of the maker movement to influence how we teach students in school, thus far, most research on maker activities have taken place in informal spaces, such as museums and after-school programs, which are inaccessible to some populations. To ensure maker education reaches "all" students, it must find its place at…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Creative Activities, Elementary School Students
Emden, Markus; Gerwig, Mario; Jänichen, Michael; Wildhirt, Susanne – School Science Review, 2021
Martin Wagenschein's ideas of prioritising phenomena in making sense of science processes have influenced the German "Lehrkunstdidaktik" (art of teaching) approach. This article sketches a "Lehrkunstdidaktik" teaching unit inspired by Michael Faraday's "Chemical History of a Candle." It shows how primary and lower…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Science, Secondary School Science
Follari, Lissanna; Larsen, Jessi; Marquardt, Christi; Goldman, Maddie – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2021
Our 4th grade year has become known as "the field trip year", with over 10 trips carefully aligned with learning units across the year. This article describes the first trip of the year, which in many ways sets the stage for students' effective use of field trips as engaging extensions and applications of classroom learning. The Pike's…
Descriptors: Field Trips, Science Instruction, Ecology, State History
Download full textLo, Yi Wen; Ku, Chih-Hsiung – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2021
The spread of COVID-19 has caused a high demand for online learning or self-learning at home. We focus on evaluating which media is most suitable for self-learning for the third graders. For effective assessment of children's learning, the study adopted AEIOU: Awareness; Enjoyment; Interest; Opinion formation; and Understanding as the evaluation…
Descriptors: Science Education, Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Educational Technology
Lilly Alejandra Flores-Fiumara – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The U.S. is deficient in producing science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) professionals. Competent problem solving is a desirable educational outcome pertinent to STEM education. Research has demonstrated the effectiveness of teaching task-specific problem-solving skills using behavior-analytic tactics. Learners have been taught to…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Problem Solving, Grade 3, Elementary School Students
Royce, Christine Anne – Science and Children, 2017
This column includes activities inspired by children's literature. This month's trade books teach students about external and internal structures that allow animals and humans to survive. This months trade books are: (1) "Creature Features" (Steve Jenkins and Robin Page); and (2) "Body Actions" (Shelley Rotner and David A.…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Animals
Havu-Nuutinen, Sari; Kervinen, Anttoni; Uitto, Anna; Laine, Aulikki; Koliseva, Anniina; Pyykkö, Lassi; Impiö, Pentti; Aittola, Tiina – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2019
This research clarifies how a collaborative team teaching model (CTTM) can support both pre-service and in-service teachers' professional development in using inquiry-based science teaching in primary schools. The data were collected via a questionnaire-based survey approach after inquiry projects implementation at public schools in four Finnish…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Teaching Experience, Active Learning
Kim, Dongryeul – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2019
The aim of this study was to analyze pre-service elementary school teachers' Arm Muscle models and elementary school teachers' evaluation viewpoints of their Arm Muscle models as scientific models. The sample of this study consisted of 24 pre-service elementary school and 12 elementary school teachers. Preservice elementary school teachers, who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Models
Montgomery, Jo – Primary Science, 2019
In this article, the author describes her early fascination with the natural world, and how this directed her through school and university into a scientific career. She talks about how she combined her previous experiences into one fabulous job, running the educational outreach for a pharmaceutical company, before the teaching itch led her to…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Teachers
Akerson, Valarie L.; Carter, Ingrid; Pongsanon, Khemmawadee; Nargund-Joshi, Vanashri – Science & Education, 2019
Our goal in this article is to provide research-based strategies for embedding Nature of Science (NOS) into science instruction at the elementary level. We thus intend to aid researchers, professional developers, and teachers in noting that not only is it important and possible to teach NOS at the elementary levels, but also that elementary…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Principles, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science
Grapin, Scott; Haas, Alison; Goggins, Marcelle; Llosa, Lorena; Lee, Okhee – Science and Children, 2019
The "Next Generation Science Standards" ("NGSS") call for a high level of classroom discourse (Lee, Quinn, and Valdés 2013). To engage all students, including English learners (ELs), in this form of discourse, educators have turned to talk moves (e.g., "Say more about that"), defined as general-purpose tools for…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Discussion (Teaching Technique), English Language Learners
Bayir, Eylem – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2019
This article introduces a science game which can be used for innovative teaching and as an assessment tool. The Shadow Races Game is designed for first and second grade students to learn the phenomenon of shadow through inquiry-based activities and questions that require the children to apply inferences from those activities. In this amusing board…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Science Education, Educational Games
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
Irwanto; Saputro, Anip Dwi; Rohaetl, Eli; Prodjosantoso, Anti Kolonial – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2019
Purpose: Although critical thinking skills (CTS) and scientific process skills (SPS) are the beneficial skills needed in the 21st century learning, the fact is that the acquisition of these two skills is still low. Research with a focus on improving these skills by using inquiry-based approach is also limited. Therefore, this quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inquiry, Active Learning, Critical Thinking
