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Valarie L. Akerson; Claire Cesljarev; Conghui Liu; Judith Lederman; Norman Lederman; Nader El Ahmadie – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
Understanding the nature of scientific inquiry is considered a critical component of scientific literacy [Michaels, S., Shouse, A. W., & Schweingruber, H. A. (2008). "Ready, set, science!: Putting research to work in K-8 classrooms." National Academies Press]. What do elementary students already know about scientific inquiry? Using…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Grade 4, Scientific Methodology, Science Education
Caspi, Avner; Gorsky, Paul; Nitzani-Hendel, Rakefet; Shildhouse, Bruria – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
It has been found that participation in informal, year-long STEM programmes for "primary school children" encourages further STEM learning and motivates STEM career aspirations. To date, no previous research has investigated such programmes. The study's goals were to collect and analyse demographic data about the 3rd-6th grade…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Elementary School Students, Student Participation, Informal Education
Lammert, Catherine; Sharma, Ruchika; Hand, Brian – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
Policy documents in many nations, as well as international policies indicate that the goal of improved student science learning requires teachers to learn to use knowledge generation environments for teaching science. This is a particular challenge for early childhood teachers (kindergarten through grade two), who have historically valued…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Science Instruction, Educational Practices, Faculty Development
Gai, Lichun; Li, Yanmei; Zheng, Changlong; Wei, Bing; Jiang, Zhimeng; Lederman, Judith S. – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
While helping students develop informed views about nature of scientific inquiry (VNOSI) has been emphasised in science education, little is known regarding students' current VNOSI at a certain grade level and whether there was evidence of higher attainment of VNOSI in students in higher grades as compared to lower grades? The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Scientific Principles, Scientific Attitudes, Inquiry
Toma, Radu Bogdan; Orozco-Gómez, Martha Lucía; Molano Niño, Alba Carolina; Obando-Correal, Nadia Lucía; Suárez Román, Rocío Stella – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
A growing body of research addresses students' images of scientists using the Draw-a-Scientist-Test (DAST) and its Checklist (DAST-C). These protocols rest on the assumption that stereotypical views of scientists, as identified by the presence of multiple indicators in student drawings (e.g. lab coat, male gender; eyeglasses; facial hair), may…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Scientists, Stereotypes, Projective Measures
Caiman, Cecilia; Jakobson, Britt – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
The purpose is to contribute knowledge to the field regarding the role of aesthetic experience when young students participate in intertwined science-art activities in science class. More precisely, we scrutinise how science suggestions are shaped in students' processes of imagination when exploring animal's ecology. Data corpus comprises audio…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Interdisciplinary Approach, Science Education, Grade 1
Morón-Monge, Hortensia; García-Carmona, Antonio – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
A qualitative study was made of how the learning-to-learn competence is favoured in prospective primary teachers when they participate in an experimental activity (ExA). The ExA was on the germination of seeds. Its objective was for the prospective teachers to learn how to (i) design and execute a school scientific inquiry, and (ii) reflect…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Primary Education, Learning Strategies, Learning Processes
Chen, Yi-Chun; Wu, Hsin-Kai; Hsin, Ching-Ting – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
Recently, much importance has been placed on early science education. This study examined the associations between kindergarten teachers' science teaching self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and their integration of science into teaching, and investigated how four potential factors (i.e. mastery experience, interpersonal support, previous science…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Self Efficacy
Wilson, Rachel E.; Bradbury, Leslie U. – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
In order to investigate the impact of science drawing instruction in a first-grade unit on carnivorous plants (CPs), we analysed student-produced drawings after explicit instruction in drawing scientifically (n=38), as well as compared their drawings with students in a previous implementation (year 1) who did not experience explicit drawing…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Elementary School Students, Science Instruction, Grade 1
Tytler, Russell; Mulligan, Joanne; Prain, Vaughan; White, Peta; Xu, Lihua; Kirk, Melinda; Nielsen, Christopher; Speldewinde, Christopher – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Against a backdrop of advocacy for interdisciplinary STEM curricula, this paper explores the design principles underpinning a three-year longitudinal research project that develops and evaluates interdisciplinary mathematics and science learning sequences involving multiple teachers and student cohorts across the primary school years. The research…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Mathematics Education, Science Education, Elementary School Students
Skalstad, Ingunn; Munkebye, Eli – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Asking questions is an important way of acquiring information and knowledge and plays a significant role in a child's learning processes. In this study, we examine what characterises the questions asked by children to their teachers in two kindergartens (4-6-year-olds) and six primary school classes (2nd-4th grade) when situated in a natural…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Natural Resources, Preschool Education, Preschool Children
Keifert, Danielle; Lee, Christine; Enyedy, Noel; Dahn, Maggie; Lindberg, Lindsay; Danish, Joshua – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
While research on embodied learning sheds light on the body's role during science learning, there is a lack of understanding of how the body is drawn upon in subsequent learning interactions. We seek to understand how the body supports cognition and learning during and after embodiment. We elaborate upon the liminal blends framework (Enyedy, N.,…
Descriptors: Human Body, Learning, Prior Learning, Experience
Kähler, Jana; Hahn, Inga; Köller, Olaf – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
In times of climate change, worldwide diseases, and the question of sustainable energy, scientific literacy has never been more important. The acquisition of scientific literacy starts in early childhood and depends on children's experiences in learning environments such as the parental home and kindergarten. The Starting Cohort 2 of the German…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Achievement Gap, Kindergarten, Grade 1
Ünsal, Zeynep; Jakobson, Britt; Wickman, Per-Olof; Molander, Bengt-Olov – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
This article concerns how teachers can use physical artefacts as mediating means to support emergent bilingual students' learning in science class. The data consist of non-participant observations in a Swedish 3rd grade (9-10 years old) class working with electricity. All students were bilingual, but in different minority languages and the teacher…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Language Proficiency
Young Students' Diverse Resources for Meaning Making in Science: Learning from Multilingual Contexts
Siry, Christina; Gorges, Anna – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
This manuscript elaborates the value of looking beyond the written and spoken word in science education research and practice at the early childhood level. We examine one plurilingual child's descriptions of a science activity to explore the "diversity of resources" that she used while expressing her understandings of a sound…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Science Instruction, Nonverbal Communication, Freehand Drawing
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