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ERIC Number: EJ1224492
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Aug
Pages: 8
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0036-8148
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Let's Take This Show on the Road!
Scott, Catherine; Carroll, Kimberly
Science and Children, v57 n1 p28-35 Aug 2019
The authors focused on using antiques to learn how to teach elementary children about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in a historical context; they refer to the historical objects as "antique artifacts." By studying antiques, students get a real-world opportunity to learn how people in their local area and beyond harvested food, entertained themselves, and explored new technologies during a time before they were born, hence fostering the inquiry-based instruction needed to get young children interested in STEM. The preservice candidates at the authors' school created an Antiques STEM Roadshow for their second- and third-grade students. The students were to explore objects that were older than their birth year and explain the STEM history behind the objects in the style of the popular television show "Antiques Roadshow." For this unit, they focused on physical science and forces and motion, but this research could easily be adjusted to account for other standards and inventions. In this article, they explain how teachers might implement a similar project in their own classroom.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education; Early Childhood Education; Grade 2; Primary Education; Grade 3
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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