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Carla C. Johnson Ed.; Janet B. Walton Ed.; Erin Peters-Burton Ed. – Eye on Education, 2024
What if you could challenge your fourth graders to create a minimally invasive, highly efficient dam? With this volume in the "STEM Road Map Curriculum Series," you can! "Hydropower Efficiency" outlines a journey that will steer your students toward authentic problem solving while grounding them in integrated STEM disciplines.…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Learning Activities
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Marie Therese Farrugia – Journal of Education, 2024
Presently, in Malta, syllabi are being replaced by learning outcomes. For ages 3-7, the outcomes are framed holistically (e.g. identity, communication, etc.), and it is recommended that children learn mathematics informally through play and projects. For ages 8-11, learning outcomes are subject-based, and new mathematics textbooks are being phased…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Objectives, Play
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Rich, Kathryn M.; Franklin, Diana; Strickland, Carla; Isaacs, Andy; Eatinger, Donna – Computer Science Education, 2022
Background and Context: We explored how learning trajectories (LTs) might be used to design variables instruction. Objective: We aimed to develop an LT for variables and use it to guide curriculum development for fourth graders working in Scratch in an integrated mathematics+CS curriculum. Method: We synthesized learning goals (LGs) and levels of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computer Science Education, Sequential Learning, Instructional Design
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Abdullah Kaldirim; Omer Faruk Tavsanli – SAGE Open, 2024
The purpose of this longitudinal study was to critically evaluate the updated Turkish reading curricula to determine whether they enable teachers to design instructional sequences that are highly cognitively demanding. This study was designed as a qualitative inquiry using document analysis to estimate the pedagogically oriented intellectual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Curriculum Development, Elementary Schools
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Miller, Samuel D.; Metzger, Salem Rainey; Fitts, Amber; Stallings, Sarah; Massey, Dixie D. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2021
Frustrated by the ineffectiveness of externally mandated reforms to positively influence the academic performances and attitudes of their students who came from families with limited economic resources (>98%), two fourth-grade teachers used their teaching visions to redesign daily instructional activities. Consistent with their visions and a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Grade 4, Instructional Design, Educational Change
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Nell-Tuor, Nadine – International Journal of Listening, 2022
In Switzerland, national educational goals were implemented in 2011. They cover various fields, including listening. The goals specify the competencies Swiss students should have at certain points in their school career. The pupils' achievement of these goals is tested regularly. This review of basic competencies takes place on tablet. In order to…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Handheld Devices, Elementary School Students, Listening Comprehension Tests