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Download full textRule, Audrey C.; Sallis, Derek A.; Donaldson, J. Ana – Online Submission, 2008
Elementary school science is an often-neglected subject in the current literacy-focused political atmosphere. However, reading informational trade books about science in literacy class can help children increase their science knowledge. Incorporating humor through content-related cartoons is an effective way to engage students in deeper…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Science, Brainstorming, Instructional Design
Pugh, Kevin – 1998
According to the philosophy of John Dewey, the goal of education is to provide students with an increased capacity for having worthwhile experiences. This paper draws on Dewey's writings to develop a theory of worthwhile experience, termed "idea-based experience." A model is proposed of how individuals are apprenticed into having an…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Early Experience, Home Instruction, Learning Experience
Barshinger, Timothy; Ray, Ann – 1998
This paper reports on a study at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis that examined how two-way audio/visual interactive learning (2WAVIL) technology can be used to help prepare students prior to a museum visit, hoping that this preparation may help students interact with exhibits in a more constructivist manner. The study focused on children's…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Constructivism (Learning), Distance Education, Field Trips
Caillot, Michel; Chartrain, Jean-Louis – 2001
This paper tries to explain why all the students of a same class who have got the same teaching do not go so far in their conceptual change. Here we have studied the students' conceptual change about volcanoes in a French 5th grade. The different students' preconceptions before teaching have been categorized and related to the well-known…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Flagg, Barbara N. – 1990
This paper describes the role of formative evaluation in the development of a museum videodisk project entitled "Earth Over Time," which was sponsored by 15 museums of the Interactive Video Science Consortium. Targeted for 10- to 12-year-old children who have come to the museum with their parents, this earth science videodisk covers…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Earth Science, Evaluation Methods, Exhibits
Kohler, Fred – 1980
This paper discusses the development of and provides examples of exercises from a student workbook for a college-level course about natural hazards. The course is offered once a year to undergraduates at Western Illinois University. Students are introduced to 10 hazards (eight meteorological plus earthquakes and volcanoes) through slides, movies,…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Geography Instruction, Higher Education
