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Sampson, Victor; Grooms, Jonathon; Walker, Joi – Science Teacher, 2009
Argument-Driven Inquiry (ADI) is an instructional model that enables science teachers to transform a traditional laboratory activity into a short integrated instructional unit. To illustrate how the ADI instructional model works, this article describes an ADI lesson developed for a 10th-grade chemistry class. This example lesson was designed to…
Descriptors: Science Activities, Communication Skills, Inquiry, Persuasive Discourse
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Glover, Derek; Miller, David – Professional Development in Education, 2009
There are concerns that the effective use of interactive whiteboard technology is being inhibited by its use only as a means of presentation. This article looks at the way in which a working group drawn from the university and school areas of mathematics teaching developed materials to enhance the pedagogic use of interactive whiteboard…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Chalkboards, Professional Development
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Rodriguez, Anthony M. – Democracy & Education, 2009
In this article, the author talks about a hands-on, community-supported project that he initiated with a group of middle school students on Zia Pueblo, in which students used measurement and numeracy skills to build benches for the school grounds. He talks about the theoretical framework of this project and the lessons he learned from this project.
Descriptors: Numeracy, Student Projects, Construction (Process), Community Involvement
Montgomery, Nicholas; Allensworth, Elaine M. – Consortium on Chicago School Research, 2010
This report examines the effects of increasing science course-taking requirements in the Chicago Public Schools. CPS has been at the forefront of the national movement to require a college-preparatory curriculum for all high school students. In 1997, CPS mandated that all entering ninth-graders take a college-preparatory curriculum in high school,…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Graduation Requirements, Science Curriculum, Science Education
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Lahoud, Hilmi A.; Krichen, Jack P. – Journal of Technology Studies, 2010
Several techniques have been used to provide hands-on educational experiences to online learners, including remote labs, simulation software, and virtual labs, which offer a more structured environment, including simulations and scheduled asynchronous access to physical resources. This exploratory study investigated how these methods can be used…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Computer Assisted Instruction, Learning Experience
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Grove, Crissie M.; Dixon, Patricia J.; Pop, Margareta M. – Professional Development in Education, 2009
This qualitative study examines one professional development program and how this experience affects teachers' thoughts about planning and science teaching practices specific to the elements focused on during the program. The program supports 13 American K-12 teachers, selected from across the nation, to spend six weeks with a mentor scientist in…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Science Laboratories, Teaching Methods
Steele, Bronwen – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Health science students like students in many disciplines exhibit difficulty with transferring content from one course to another. For example, the problem explored in this study occurred when overlapping concepts were presented in introductory biology and chemistry courses, but students could not transfer the concepts to the other disciplinary…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Action Research, Cooperation, Chemistry
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DeLuca, V. William; Lari, Nasim – Journal of Technology Education, 2011
The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of using renewable energy data, obtained from a comprehensive data acquisition system, on improving students' learning and developing their higher-order learning skills. This study used renewable energy data available through a data acquisition system installed and tested by the Green Research…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Social Problems, Energy Conservation, Energy
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Cope, Lee Anne – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2008
Dilated canine hearts were used to teach undergraduate students internal and external cardiac anatomy. The specimens were dilated using hydrostatic pressure and then fixed using 5% formalin. These specimens provided the students with an alternative to prepackaged embalmed hearts and anatomical models for studying the external and internal cardiac…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Anatomy, Metabolism, Teaching Methods
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McEwan, Birgitta – Journal of Biological Education, 2008
The following experiment describes an easy experiment for children 11-12 years old, performed during spring in a compulsory school near Karlstad, Sweden. Four different ripe fruits were placed under flowering plants of Impatiens New Guinea (Impatiens hawkeri) for four days on a table and with plastic bags around both plants and fruits. For one of…
Descriptors: Science Activities, Foreign Countries, Science Course Improvement Projects, Science Experiments
Kralina, Linda M. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Extracurricular activities (ECA) are informal settings offering free-choice experiences that are generally voluntary, open-ended, non-sequential, self-directed, hands-on, and evaluation-free. This mixed methods study investigates participation in a high school science ECA by collecting the memories of former student members for their perceptions…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Informal Education, Science Education, Learner Engagement
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Papadouris, Nicos; Constantinou, Constantinos P. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2009
This paper demonstrates a methodology for effectively integrating computer-based learning tools in science teaching and learning. This methodology provides a means of systematic analysis to identify the capabilities of particular software tools and to formulate a series of competencies relevant to physical science that could be developed by means…
Descriptors: Physical Sciences, Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Computer Uses in Education
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Montero, E.; Gonzalez, M. J. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2009
Problem-based learning has been at the core of significant developments in engineering education in recent years. This term refers to any learning environment in which the problem drives the learning, because it is posed in such a way that students realize they need to acquire new knowledge before the problem can be solved. This paper presents the…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Problem Based Learning, Cooperative Learning, Heat
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Baker, Dale R.; Lewis, Elizabeth B.; Purzer, Senay; Watts, Nievita Bueno; Perkins, Gita; Uysal, Sibel; Wong, Sissy; Beard, Rachelle; Lang, Michael – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2009
This study reports on the context and impact of the Communication in Science Inquiry Project (CISIP) professional development to promote teachers' and students' scientific literacy through the creation of science classroom discourse communities. The theoretical underpinnings of the professional development model are presented and key professional…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Discourse Communities, Student Attitudes, Scientific Principles
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Nguyen, Ngan; Wilson, Timothy D. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2009
Advances in computer and interface technologies have made it possible to create three-dimensional (3D) computerized models of anatomical structures for visualization, manipulation, and interaction in a virtual 3D environment. In the past few decades, a multitude of digital models have been developed to facilitate complex spatial learning of the…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Anatomy, Human Body, Science Course Improvement Projects
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