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Jiang, Shiyan; Shen, Ji; Smith, Blaine E.; Kibler, Kristin Watson – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2020
Science identity has been widely discussed in recent years; however, research on its development in multimodal composing environments, especially in formal classroom settings, has yet to be fully investigated. This qualitative study unraveled the science identity development of sixth-grade students as they created multimodal science fiction…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Identification (Psychology), Science Fiction
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Laughter, Judson C.; Adams, Amelia D. – Urban Education, 2012
To respond to calls for more research on culturally relevant science teaching, we present findings from one middle school science teacher's practices in an effort to contribute to this research. We describe how a discussion lab centered on Derrick Bell's (1992) short story "The Space Traders" was purposively included in a lesson on scientific bias…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Science Teachers, Teacher Educators, Grade 6
Horton, Lucas; Liu, Min; Olmanson, Justin; Toprac, Paul – Online Submission, 2011
In this paper we explore students' engagement in a new media enhanced problem-based learning (PBL) environment and investigate the characteristics of these environments that facilitate learning. We investigated both student experiences using a new media enhanced PBL environment and the specific elements students found most supportive of their…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Problem Based Learning, Grade 6, Information Processing