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Gorard, Stephen – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2011
This paper uses reports from 13,000 Grade Nine pupils in five countries to examine issues such as whether they were treated fairly at school, trust their teachers and adults in wider society, are willing to sacrifice teacher attention to help others, and support the cultural integration of recent immigrants. Using such reports as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Adolescent Attitudes, Justice
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Rohrig, Brian – Science Teacher, 2010
A major goal of education is to help learners store information in long-term memory and use that information on later occasions to effectively solve problems (Vockell 2010). Therefore, this author began to use the Rubik's cube to help students learn to problem solve. There is something special about this colorful three-dimensional puzzle that…
Descriptors: Long Term Memory, Teaching Methods, Problem Solving, Puzzles
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Kelly, Angela M. – Physics Teacher, 2011
One of the greatest challenges in teaching physics is helping students achieve a conceptual understanding of Newton's laws. I find that students fresh from middle school can sometimes recite the laws verbatim ("An object in motion stays in motion..." and "For every action..."), but they rarely demonstrate a working knowledge of…
Descriptors: Enrichment Activities, Physics, Motion, Teaching Methods
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Bailey, Nancy M.; Carroll, Kristen M. – English Journal, 2010
The authors investigate how innovative research assignments based on students' personal interests can help them want to develop their research skills. They find that multimodal communication and representation, including film, written scripts, comic strips, music, and photography, encourage students to carefully select information from the…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Research Skills, Student Interests, Research Projects
Squibb, Matt – Arts & Activities, 2009
This article describes how to make a clay camera. This idea of creating functional cameras from clay allows students to experience ceramics, photography, and painting all in one unit. (Contains 1 resource and 3 online resources.)
Descriptors: Photography, Ceramics, Painting (Visual Arts), Studio Art
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Maurer, Matthew J.; Tokarsky, Rebecca; Zalewsky, Laura – Science Scope, 2011
Many of the skills and talents required to be a successful scientist, such as analysis, experimentation, and creativity, can be developed and reinforced through art. Both science and art challenge students to make observations, experiment with different techniques, and use both traditional and nontraditional methods to express their ideas. The…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Science Education, Art Education, Grade 7
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Sacco, Michael – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2008
In this article, the author describes a project in which his ninth-grade art students utilized a vinyl record as an unusual medium to create a work that exhibited solid design, great creativity, and strong craftsmanship. Students presented their pieces to the class for critique, explained the process, the media, and their feelings about their…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Grade 9, Art Activities, Creativity
Collins, Anne; Dacey, Linda – Stenhouse Publishers, 2011
In many ways, algebra can be as challenging for teachers as it is for students. With so much emphasis placed on procedural knowledge and the manipulations of variables and symbols, it can be easy to lose sight of the key ideas that underlie algebraic thinking and the relevance algebra has to the real world. In the The Xs and Whys of Algebra: Key…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Symbols (Mathematics), Mathematics Teachers, Algebra
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Chandrasegaran, A. L.; Treagust, David F.; Mocerino, Mauro – Journal of Chemical Education, 2009
An alternative program of instruction was implemented with 33 high-achieving Grade 9 students (15-16 years old) in Singapore that overtly focused on the use of macroscopic, submicroscopic, and symbolic representations to describe and explain the changes that occurred during the burning of metals, reactions of dilute acids, ionic precipitations,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nontraditional Education, High Achievement, Grade 9
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Shamburg, Christopher; Craighead, Cari – English Journal, 2009
Performance-based activities and creative projects with technology that focus on Shakespeare's language are powerful developmental tools for students to express and extend thoughts and feelings from their lives. Shakespeare becomes a toy chest and a toolset that allows students to live in situations they never could and to express language they…
Descriptors: English Literature, Drama, Student Projects, Technology Uses in Education
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Fisher, Douglas; Ross, Donna; Grant, Maria – Science Teacher, 2010
Too often, students enter our classrooms with insufficient knowledge of physical science. As a result, they have a difficult time understanding content in texts, lectures, and laboratory activities. This lack of background knowledge can have an impact on their ability to ask questions and wonder--both key components of inquiry. In this article,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Physical Sciences, Science Education, Science Instruction
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Kabbeko, Erica – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2008
Good design brings the excitement of the Olympic Games into the visual realm of public media. Inspired by the design involved in the making of the Olympic Games, the author developed a lesson called Fashion Forward. Fashion Forward, which is taught to ninth and tenth graders, is based on the enduring idea that visual images are power communication…
Descriptors: Athletics, Design, Clothing, Grade 9
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Khalil, Mahmood; Lazarowitz, Reuven; Hertz-Lazarowitz, Rachel – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2009
In this paper a conceptual model of instruction "the six mirrors of the classroom" used as a frame for teaching a learning topic, the microorganisms are depicted. The paper consists of four sections: (a) the six mirrors of the classroom model (SMC); (b) the SMC as implemented in the expository and cooperative modes of instruction in classrooms and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Social Behavior, Models, Grade 9
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Cross, Dionne I. – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2009
This collective case study reports on an investigation into the relationship between mathematics teachers' beliefs and their classroom practices, namely, how they organized their classroom activities, interacted with their students, and assessed their students' learning. Additionally, the study examined the pervasiveness of their beliefs in the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs
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Hermann, Ronald S.; Miranda, Rommel J. – Science Teacher, 2010
This article provides an instructional approach to helping students generate open-inquiry research questions, which the authors call the "open-inquiry question template." This template was created based on their experience teaching high school science and preservice university methods courses. To help teachers implement this template, they…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Space Sciences, Teaching Methods, Inquiry
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