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Fair, Cynthia D.; Delaplane, Emily – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2015
Service learning has become increasingly popular across all levels of education. Previous literature emphasizes that reflection is an important aspect of service learning. However, limited focus has been given to appropriate methods of reflection for younger children. This longitudinal study followed 31 second-grade children (15 females; mean age…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Longitudinal Studies, Grade 2, Elementary School Students
Giles, Rebecca M.; Tunks, Karyn – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2015
Teachers' assumptions about teaching and learning have a critical impact on pedagogical practices. This study was conducted to investigate the perceptions of early childhood educators regarding children's acquisition of literacy in an attempt to gain a picture of current instructional practices. Prekindergarten through second grade teachers…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Reading Instruction, Early Childhood Education
O'Neil, Kathleen Ellen – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2015
Children of elementary school age are in the process of discovering and establishing their self-identity through talk, gesture, writing, and, especially, the arts. While they can sometimes find room to exert their individuality in their daily classroom assignments, it is more often in the spaces open to social interaction in school in which this…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Self Concept, Grade 2, Personal Autonomy
Rule, Audrey C.; Webb, Angela Naomi – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2015
The cause of day and night is a difficult concept to master without concrete foundational skills of understanding shadows, rotation, changing point of view, and relative positions of objects in the sky. This pretest-posttest experimental-control group study examined student learning in a science-literacy-spatial skills integrated unit with…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Integrated Activities, Literacy, Spatial Ability
Cultivating Primary Students' Scientific Thinking through Sustained Teacher Professional Development
Miller, Roxanne Greitz; Curwen, Margaret Sauceda; White-Smith, Kimberly A.; Calfee, Robert C. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2015
While the United States' National Research Council (NRC 2012) and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS 2013) advocate children's engagement in active science learning, elementary school teachers in the US indicate lack of time to teach science regularly because of (1) school and district pressure to focus on English language arts and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Faculty Development, Science Instruction, Elementary School Teachers
Paul Caldarella; Leslie Williams; Blake D. Hansen; Howard Wills – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2015
Comprehensive evidence-based interventions are needed to help early childhood educators manage challenging student behaviors. One such intervention, class-wide function-related intervention teams (CW-FIT), is a multi-tiered behavioral intervention program based on positive behavior support principles, including four main elements: (a) teaching…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Elementary School Students, Intervention, Early Childhood Education
Webb, Angela Naomi; Rule, Audrey C. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2014
The focus on standardized testing in the areas of reading and mathematics in early elementary education often minimalizes science and the arts in the curriculum. The science topics of health and nutrition were integrated into the reading curriculum through read aloud books. Inclusion of creativity skills through figural transformation drawings…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Creativity, Knowledge Level
Rule, Audrey C.; Zhbanova, Ksenia S. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2012
Today's children are often separated from the natural world, developing fear and aversion to wild creatures. This humane education program used curriculum-blended science lessons that focused on eight generally disliked animals: bat, skunk, snake, mouse, spider, centipede, cockroach, and mosquito. First and second grade students participated in 6…
Descriptors: Animals, Student Attitudes, Elementary School Science, Puppetry
Whitcomb, Sara A.; Merrell, Kenneth W. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2012
"Strong Start K-2" is a social-emotional learning curriculum, designed for use with children in kindergarten through grade 2. The objectives of this study were twofold. First, authors aimed to evaluate the feasibility and quality of "Strong Start" implementation. Additionally authors examined the effect of "Strong Start" on first grade students'…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Social Behavior, Affective Behavior, Kindergarten
Webb, Angela Naomi; Rule, Audrey C. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2012
Young children need to develop creative problem-solving skills to ensure success in an uncertain future workplace. Although most teachers recognize the importance of creativity, they do not always know how integrate it with content learning. This repeated measures study on animal and plant lifecycles examined student learning of vocabulary and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Creativity, Problem Solving
Meyer, James A.; Mann, Mary Beth; Becker, Jennifer – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2011
The purpose of this study was to replicate previous research about teachers' perceived benefits of home visits to determine if they remained stable. Furthermore, the investigation sought to find out whether home visits impacted variables often associated with improved school success (i.e., school attendance, academic performance, parent…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Home Visits, Program Effectiveness, Grade 2
Calo, Kristine M. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2011
This article highlights the literacy practices of two second grade teachers--one in an affluent suburb of a major metropolitan area and the other in a large urban school district. The article describes how these teachers use informational texts to engage their students, to provide children with opportunities to learn about the world around them,…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Metropolitan Areas, Literacy, Grade 2
Cohen, Marisa T.; Johnson, Helen L. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2011
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of imagery interventions on the vocabulary acquisition abilities of second grade students. A total of 15 students were randomly assigned to three different intervention conditions: Word Only, which involves the simple verbal presentation of a vocabulary word; Dual Coding, in which a picture…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Statistical Significance, Grade 2, Vocabulary Development
Boutte, Gloria Swindler; Lopez-Robertson, Julia; Powers-Costello, Elizabeth – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2011
Countering the position that colorblindness is desirable for teachers and children, this article encourages early childhood education teachers to engage in conversations about race and racism with young children. We discuss why the early childhood years are important for interrupting racism and make suggestions for helping children develop tools…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Race, Racial Bias, Young Children
Chohan, Sukhdeep Kaur – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2011
This study involved the development, implementation, and assessment of a comprehensive schoolwide mailing program as a practical tool to communicate enthusiasm towards writing to children and actively engage them in letter writing. The author played the dual role of teacher-researcher and worked for one school year with one teacher from each grade…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Letters (Correspondence), Staff Meetings, Student Attitudes