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Sell, Corey R.; Schmaltz, Jennie; Hartman, Stephanie – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2018
A typical social studies lesson for elementary students often includes the memorization of facts and dates, but lacks the inquiry-based instruction that could promote purposeful engagement with historical sources. In this social studies learning experience, framed in the tenets of transcaring and the C3 Framework, students actively and…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Inquiry
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Legaspi, Britt; Straits, William – Science and Children, 2011
Categorizing organisms as living or nonliving things may seem to be intuitive by nature. Yet, it is regulated by scientific criteria. Students come to school with rules already in place. Their categorizing criteria have already been influenced by their personal experiences, also known as observations and inferences. They believe that all things…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Influences, Inferences, Classification
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Hossain, Ziarat; Shipman, Virginia – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2009
This study examined mothers' and fathers' reports of their time spent in their school-age children's care and academic work and the relationships between socioeconomic status and social support variables with fathers' time spent in children's care and academic work within two-parent Mexican immigrant families. Mother and father dyads from 79…
Descriptors: Mothers, Family Size, Sex Role, Immigrants