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Betance, Gabriela Nieto; Díaz, Mario Humberto Ramírez; Martínez, Soraida Cristina Zúñiga – Physics Teacher, 2021
The preschool level is often the first formal opportunity for children to experience science. There are many examples of appropriate experiments and scientific experiences aimed at young children, both in Mexico and around the world. Even the formal public preschool program in Mexico includes sections called Academic Training Topics, one of which…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Education, Preschool Education, Public Education
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Prahani, Binar Kurnia; Saphira, Hanandita Veda; Wibowo, Firmanul Catur; Misbah; Sulaeman, Nurul Fitriyah – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2022
Augmented Reality (AR) & Virtual Reality (VR) are now wide open to all fields. The objectives of this study are to analyze the comparison of trend research on the top 200 cited AR and VR publications in all areas, to identify the comparison of trend mapping visualization on AR and VR publications in Physics learning research, to compare the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Computer Simulation, Educational Technology
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Brown, Patrick – Science and Children, 2023
Science and engineering practices (SEPs) and crosscutting concepts (CCs) constitute a significant part of "A Framework for K-12 Science Education" (NRC 2012). As teachers, the role of the authors is to highlight the pivotal role that both scientific knowledge and the practices used to generate knowledge play in learning. This article…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Teaching Methods, Scientific Research, Concept Formation
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Larsson, Jonna – International Research in Early Childhood Education, 2016
This article studies an activity in a Swedish preschool setting where children's elaborations and understandings of floating and sinking are central. In a Swedish preschool context, it is advocated by the National Agency for Education (2016) that different forms of knowledge and ways of learning are used within the institutions to form a coherent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Science Education, Scientific Concepts
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Thulin, Susanne; Redfors, Andreas – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2017
This article reports on student preschool teachers' views of science and its role in preschool. Three cohorts of students have been given a written questionnaire with open-ended questions before and after a one-semester course including science (specifically Chemistry and Physics) in a 3.5-year preschool teacher programme in Sweden. The science…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Preschool Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Preservice Teacher Education
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Lamanauskas, Vincentas, Ed. – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2019
These proceedings contain papers of the 3rd International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education (BalticSTE2019) held in Šiauliai, Lithuania, June 17-19, 2019. This symposium was organized by the Scientific Methodical Center "Scientia Educologica" in cooperation with the Institute of Education, Šiauliai University. The…
Descriptors: Science Education, Technology Education, Formative Evaluation, Chemistry
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Clark, Douglas B.; D'Angelo, Cynthia M.; Schleigh, Sharon P. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2011
This study investigates the ongoing debate in the conceptual change literature between unitary and elemental perspectives on students' knowledge structure coherence. More specifically, the current study explores two potential explanations for the conflicting results reported by Ioannides and Vosniadou (2002)and diSessa, Gillespie, and Esterly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Structures, Physics, Coding