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Monferrer, Lidón; Lorenzo-Valentín, Gil; Santágueda-Villanueva, María – Education Sciences, 2022
The much-needed interest in promoting a healthy lifestyle among school-age students has found a context for development: school gardens. There are numerous studies where using gardens as a teaching-learning context also improves students' performance in the experimental sciences. In this study, we proposed another interest that sets it apart and…
Descriptors: Gardening, Health Promotion, Science Education, Mathematics Education
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Li-Grining, Christine Pajunar; Stockdale, Laura; Cunningham, Annelise; Bradley, Kelly; Papadakis, Jaclyn L.; Flores-Lamb, Valerie; Marcus, Maria; Radulescu, Maria – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: Greater self-regulation has been identified as a protective factor for low-income children's academic achievement. However, we know less about the long-term protective nature of specific aspects of self-regulation. Data were drawn from predominantly African American and Latino children in low-income communities in Boston,…
Descriptors: Self Control, Academic Achievement, Low Income Students, Elementary School Students
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Lindholm, Markus – Science & Education, 2018
Curiosity is a wonder of the human mind. It goes to the heart of modernity, as a driving force for learning, novel insights, and innovation, both for individuals and communities. In societies dependent on science and development, finding out what promotes or hampers curiosity and wonder in school curricula and science education is accordingly…
Descriptors: Science Education, Inquiry, Teaching Methods, Preschool Children
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McMullen, Jake; Hannula-Sormunen, Minna M.; Lehtinen, Erno – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2015
Recent evidence suggests that early natural number knowledge is a predictor of later rational number conceptual knowledge, even though students' difficulties with rational numbers have also been explained by the overuse of natural number concepts--often referred to as the natural number bias. Hannula and Lehtinen ("Learn Instr"…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Longitudinal Studies, Number Concepts
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Lehrl, Simone; Kluczniok, Katharina; Rossbach, Hans-Guenther; Anders, Yvonne – Global Education Review, 2017
The present study examines how attending the German model project "Kindergarten of the Future in Bavaria" (KiDZ), which provided 138 children (aged 3 to 6) with traditional preschool stimulation combined with cognitive and domain-specific stimulation, is associated with children's competencies in mathematics over time to age 12 compared…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Mathematics Skills, Mathematics Instruction
Herro, Danielle, Ed.; Arafeh, Sousan, Ed.; Ling, Richard, Ed.; Holden, Chris, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2018
There can be no doubt that mobile technologies are here to stay. Global mobile traffic grew 74 percent in 2015 alone, with 563 million devices and connections added -- most of them tablets and Smartphones. This growth has been 4000-fold in the past 10 years and 400 million-fold in the past 15 years (Cisco, 2016). Mobile technologies permeate the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Policy, Global Approach, Leadership