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Pitts, Marina; Venville, Grady; Blair, David; Zadnik, Marjan – Research in Science Education, 2014
Concepts related to Einsteinian physics are usually not taught until students are in university, denying younger children access to this powerful way of understanding space, time and gravity. Considerable research has shown, however, that complex and abstract scientific ideas can be presented in age appropriate ways that result in measurable…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Science Instruction, Physics, Scientific Concepts
Kier, Meredith W.; Blanchard, Margaret R.; Osborne, Jason W.; Albert, Jennifer L. – Research in Science Education, 2014
Internationally, efforts to increase student interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers have been on the rise. It is often the goal of such efforts that increased interest in STEM careers should stimulate economic growth and enhance innovation. Scientific and educational organizations recommend that efforts to…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
Vijapurkar, Jyotsna; Kawalkar, Aisha; Nambiar, Priya – Research in Science Education, 2014
In our explorations of students' concepts in an inquiry science classroom with grade 6 students from urban schools in India, we uncovered a variety of problems in their understanding of biological cells as structural and functional units of living organisms. In particular, we found not only that they visualised the cell as a two-dimensional (2-D)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cytology, Urban Schools, Inquiry
Danielsson, Anna T.; Warwick, Paul – Research in Science Education, 2014
In the broadest sense, the goal for primary science teacher education could be described as preparing these teachers to teach for scientific literacy. Our starting point is that making such science teaching accessible and desirable for future primary science teachers is dependent not only on their science knowledge and self-confidence, but also on…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Primary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Science
Forbes, Anne; Skamp, Keith – Research in Science Education, 2014
"MyScience" is a primary science education initiative in which being in a community of practice is integral to the learning process. This paper describes the ongoing journey to date of eight primary teachers from three primary schools who actively participated in "MyScience" over an extended period. Their views of interactions…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Dickerson, Daniel L.; Eckhoff, Angela; Stewart, Craig O.; Chappell, Shanan; Hathcock, Stephanie – Research in Science Education, 2014
The purpose of this study is to determine whether a pullout STEM program (STARBASE) makes reading and math scores decrease and examine its impact on urban fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students' attitudes and perceptions regarding STEM education and careers. We employed a mixed-methods, case study approach that involved two published and one…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Elementary School Students, Achievement Gap, Standardized Tests
Seung, Eulsun; Park, Soonhye; Jung, Jinhong – Research in Science Education, 2014
This study explored preservice elementary teachers' and their mentors' understanding of the essential features of inquiry-based teaching through the use of evidence-based reflection. The web-based video analysis tool (VAT) system was used to support preservice teachers' and mentors' evidence-based reflection during field…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Elementary School Curriculum, Active Learning
Yang, Hsiu-Ting; Wang, Kuo-Hua – Research in Science Education, 2014
Improving students scientific explanations is one major goal of science education. Both writing activities and concept mapping are reported as effective strategies for enhancing student learning of science. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a teaching model, named the DCI model, which integrates a Descriptive explanation…
Descriptors: Science Education, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Elementary School Students, Models
Oliveira, Alandeom W.; Rivera, Seema; Glass, Rory; Mastroianni, Michael; Wizner, Francine; Amodeo, Vincent – Research in Science Education, 2014
This study examines elementary teachers reading children's science books aloud to students in the US. Our findings show that science read-aloud semiosis (meaning-making) extends beyond text delivery. In addition to making a written text orally available to students, teachers also deploy different types of gestures (pointing and iconic…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction, Reading Aloud to Others
Haug, Berit S.; Ødegaard, Marianne – Research in Science Education, 2014
This qualitative video study explores how two elementary school teachers taught for conceptual understanding throughout different phases of science inquiry. The teachers implemented teaching materials with a focus on learning science key concepts through the development of word knowledge. A framework for word knowledge was applied to examine the…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Video Technology, Elementary School Teachers, Scientific Concepts
Marulcu, Ismail; Barnett, Mike – Research in Science Education, 2013
This study is part of a 5-year National Science Foundation-funded project, Transforming Elementary Science Learning Through LEGO™ Engineering Design. In this study, we report on the successes and challenges of implementing an engineering design-based and LEGO™-oriented unit in an urban classroom setting and we focus on the impact of the unit on…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Engineering, Elementary School Students, Grade 5
Ero-Tolliver, Isi; Lucas, Deborah; Schauble, Leona – Research in Science Education, 2013
This study was part of a multi-year project on the development of elementary students' modeling approaches to understanding the life sciences. Twenty-three first grade students conducted a series of coordinated observations and investigations on decomposition, a topic that is rarely addressed in the early grades. The instruction included…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Students, Biological Sciences, Models
Carrier, Sarah J.; Tugurian, Linda P.; Thomson, Margareta M. – Research in Science Education, 2013
In this article, we present the results from a mixed-methods research study aimed to document indoor and outdoor fifth grade science experiences in one school in the USA in the context of accountability and standardized testing. We used quantitative measures to explore students' science knowledge, environmental attitudes, and outdoor comfort…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Mixed Methods Research, Outdoor Education, Grade 5
Jakab, Cheryl – Research in Science Education, 2013
This paper reports on 6-11-year-old children's "sayings and doings" (Harré 2002) as they explore molecule artefacts in dialectical-interactive teaching interviews (Fleer, "Cultural Studies of Science Education" 3:781-786, 2008; Hedegaard et al. 2008). This sociocultural study was designed to explore children's…
Descriptors: Children, Science Process Skills, Scientific Attitudes, Discourse Analysis
Madden, Lauren; Wiebe, Eric N. – Research in Science Education, 2013
This mixed-methods case study examined the notebook entries of one class of 22 second graders as a way of examining how teacher identity shaped the way students experienced their science curriculum. These notebook entries were created during lessons with three different teachers over the course of one school year, using similar kit-based materials…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Science, Science Curriculum