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Isabell K. Adler; Daniela Fiedler; Ute Harms – Science Education, 2024
Evolution is the integrative framework of the life sciences. Even though the topic is often not formally introduced before high school, young children already have various ideas about evolutionary principles (variation, inheritance, and selection) and their underlying key concepts (e.g., differential fitness, reproduction, and speciation).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Young Children, Heredity
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Wegner, Claas; Weber, Phillip; Ohlberger, Stephanie – Primary Science, 2015
In this article, Claas Wegner, Phillip Weber, and Stephanie Ohlberger share how they have been teaching about variation and staple food crops in the teaching unit they tested with 8- to 10-year-old children. They started by showing some products made from crop plants and asking the class to carry out a simple comparison of similarities and…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Food, Plants (Botany)