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Öngören, Sema – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2023
This study aims to examine preschool teachers' earth and space science practices and the expected achievements of children in these practices. The research was conducted with a phenomenological pattern. Participants of the study consisted of 28 preschool teachers working in public schools and determined by the criterion sampling method, one of the…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Earth Science
Musselman, Sean – Science and Children, 2020
Field trips have long been a part of the elementary student experience, and through the years a great deal of research and work has been done around how field trips best support and facilitate learning. When new earth science unit was being rolled out across the Burlington (MA) Public Schools' second grades, the opportunity to shake up the…
Descriptors: Field Trips, Elementary School Students, Earth Science, Grade 2
Waite, Kim – International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education, 2021
In our interconnected world, what does it mean to teach global environmental issues to young children? Using theoretical foundations from the social justice learning community and child-directed, inquiry-based learning best practices, this practitioner reflection details a seven-week, student-centered, interdisciplinary learning experience…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Social Justice, Inquiry, Student Centered Learning
Olcer, Sevinc – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2017
The present study is a descriptive research in the scanning model. In the present study is research conducted to determine five to six-year-old children's knowledge of science content, study group constitutes of 360 children attending preschool educational institutions in Burdur city center and their parents and teachers. In the study, Science…
Descriptors: Young Children, Knowledge Level, Science Instruction, Foreign Countries
Wilcox, Jesse; Reiter, Reade; Rose, Abby; Alberts, Alex; Murano, Katie – Science and Children, 2022
Although the "Next Generation Science Standards" (NGSS) have three dimensions, the crosscutting concepts are often the forgotten dimension. One reason teachers may not emphasize the crosscutting concepts might be because they are broad, domain-general constructs that can be difficult to conceptualize in a meaningful way. Yet, when taught…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Principles, Teaching Methods, Inquiry
Parks, Melissa – Science Activities: Classroom Projects and Curriculum Ideas, 2018
With school days seemingly getting shorter and packed with more and more obligations, teachers integrate core subjects like science and reading in the hopes of delivering a curriculum that is meaningful and content rich. Using trade books, primary teachers can develop and deliver science content designed to introduce students to proenvironmental…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Science Education, Academic Standards, Reading Materials
Johnson, Carla C., Ed.; Walton, Janet B., Ed.; Peters-Burton, Erin E., Ed. – NSTA Press, 2019
What if you could challenge your second graders to design an outdoor STEM classroom with a butterfly garden, birdbath, and sundial? With this volume in the "STEM Road Map Curriculum Series," you can! "Investigating Environmental Changes" outlines a journey that will steer your students toward authentic problem solving while…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods, Outdoor Education
Güçhan-Özgül, Sinem – Journal of Inquiry Based Activities, 2021
This study aims to introduce inquiry-based play activities and to examine their effectiveness on young children's conceptual understanding of the shape of the Earth and the day-night cycle. The inquiry-based play activities for preschool children were designed to support children to learn the concepts of the shape of the Earth and the day-night…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Inquiry, Play, Preschool Children
Osborne, Kristy – Teaching Science, 2023
The aim of this research is to take a fresh look at the physical science concepts that Year 3 students struggle with. In this work, the responses of over 8,000 middle-primary-aged students to a range of physics, space science and chemistry questions were evaluated. The questions covered a number of topics ranging from selecting and using simple…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physical Sciences, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
Kose, Mucahit; Kurtulus, Muhammed Akif; Bilen, Kadir – Pedagogical Research, 2022
The purpose of the study was to determine the perceptions, knowledge levels, and mental models of gifted 2nd and 3rd-grade elementary students regarding the shape of the Earth and gravity concepts. The data for the study, which was qualitative research, was collected through interviews with the students. The study participants were 80 students…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Elementary School Students, Physics, Scientific Concepts
Tang, Xiaowei; Yang, Liu; Levin, Daniel M. – Cognition and Instruction, 2020
In this study, we explore how cross-linguistic differences can contribute to children's scientific thinking. We compared first and third grade Chinese students' pre-instructional ideas of the earth expressed in clinical interviews with that of their English-speaking and Greek-speaking counterparts (as recorded in the literature). Inspired by a…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Science Education, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
Christelle Fayad; Hayat Hokayem; Ihsan Ghazal – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2024
To foster students' meaningful learning of science, we designed and implemented a unit for five third-grade students that allowed them to understand Carbon Footprint (CF) in a public school in North Texas. The unit lasted seven weeks, where students identified the effects of distance traveled and packaging on the CF of certain consumable products.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Grade 3, Climate, Conservation (Environment)
Jee, Benjamin D.; Anggoro, Florencia K. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Models are central to the practice and teaching of science. Yet people often fail to grasp how scientific models explain their observations of the world. Realizing the explanatory power of a model may require aligning its relational structure to that of the observable phenomena. The present research tested whether "relational…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Children, Comprehension, Models
Simon Taylor; Barbara Whyte – Assessment Matters, 2022
This article provides a snapshot of assessment for learning in action. It introduces the drawings made by children who had been studying "Planet Earth and Beyond"--Matariki as a context in science in a New Zealand primary school. The visual data are drawn from the Te Ao Hurihuri project (The Changing World) in which students were offered…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Foreign Countries, Astronomy, STEM Education
Akçay, Nilüfer Okur; Akçay, Ahmet – Southeast Asia Early Childhood, 2020
Children start to gain concepts from an early age. They are particularly sensitive to what is happening in their close surroundings. As a result of their daily observations, they can create various conceptual information about the Earth, Sun, and Moon. It is thought that the participation of children in the education process is very important for…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Knowledge Level, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation