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Download full textKara, Filiz – Journal of Inquiry Based Activities, 2023
In the present research, the "DNA Model with Clothespins" activity was designed to teach the subjects of nucleotide, DNA, and DNA replication, which are abstract subjects of science. The aim of the research, which was carried out with 20 students in 8th grade, was to examine the effects of the activity on students' achievement on the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Activities, Genetics, Instructional Effectiveness
Gamze Bulut; Zeynep Yüce – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2024
Nearly 14 million species are estimated to exist on Earth, of which 1.8 million have been identified, and new species are being added to the world of science every day. Therefore, scientists are aware that there are still unidentified species living globally. Biodiversity is a wide concept encompassing all living things in our living space. This…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Knowledge Level, Biodiversity
Abdusselam, Mustafa Serkan; Kilis, Selcan – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2021
This study aims to develop and evaluate an augmented reality microscope, "MicrosAR", for a middle school Science course, which was aimed for use both in and out of school, and to understand the users' perceptions about it. The study adopted design-based research to iteratively develop and evaluate the MicrosAR. Learning activities and…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, Middle School Students, Laboratory Equipment
Direct linkOkan, Beyza; Kaya, Ebru – Science & Education, 2023
Reconceptualized Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science (RFN) explains science as a cognitive, epistemic, and social institutional system. The aim of this study is to examine the inclusion of Nature of Science (NOS) in the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade Turkish middle school science textbooks. The "content," "activity,"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Principles, Middle Schools, Secondary School Science
Özalp, Dilek – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2023
Science textbooks play an important role in making scientific knowledge and applications available to learners. In most countries, science curriculum expects to cultivate scientifically literate individuals who are able to use science process skills. Critical analysis of textbooks is therefore crucial to determine whether they can facilitate this…
Descriptors: Science Education, Textbooks, Textbook Content, Elementary Schools
Aydan Aytekin; Mustafa Sami Topcu – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2024
In the digital age in which we live, one of the primary goals of education is to nurture individuals who are capable of thinking creatively, solving problems, and being innovative and productive. Computational thinking is an analytical process that requires defining problems and at the same time solving these problems by proceeding in creative…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Problem Solving, Skill Development, Thinking Skills
Lederman, Judith; Lederman, Norman; Bartels, Selina; Jimenez, Juan; Akubo, Mark; Aly, Shereen; Bao, Chengcheng; Blanquet, Estelle; Blonder, Ron; Bologna Soares de Andrade, Mariana; Buntting, Catherine; Cakir, Mustafa; EL-Deghaidy, Heba; ElZorkani, Ahmed; Gaigher, Estelle; Guo, Shuchen; Hakanen, Arvi; Hamed Al-Lal, Soraya; Han-Tosunoglu, Cigdem; Hattingh, Annemarie; Hume, Anne; Irez, Serhat; Kay, Gillian; Kivilcan Dogan, Ozgur; Kremer, Kerstin; Kuo, Pi-Chu; Lavonen, Jari; Lin, Shu-Fen; Liu, Cheng; Liu, Enshan; Liu, Shiang-Yao; Lv, Bin; Mamlok-Naaman, Rachel; McDonald, Christine; Neumann, Irene; Pan, Yaozhen; Picholle, Eric; Rivero García, Ana; Rundgren, Carl-Johan; Santibáñez-Gómez, David; Saunders, Kathy; Schwartz, Renee; Voitle, Frauke; von Gyllenpalm, Jakob; Wei, Fangbing; Wishart, Jocelyn; Wu, Zhifeng; Xiao, Huang; Yalaki, Yalcin; Zhou, Qiaoxue – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
Although understandings of scientific inquiry (as opposed to conducting inquiry) are included in science education reform documents around the world, little is known about what students have learned about inquiry during their elementary school years. This is partially due to the lack of any assessment instrument to measure understandings about…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Middle School Students, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Afacan, Özlem; Çanli, Demet Sener – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2019
Previous study on the nature of science indicated that the use of activities is essential and important in the teaching of the nature of science subjects. The aim of the research is to develop alternative activities for helping students in the seventh grade of middle school develop their views on the nature of science and for better teaching the…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Grade 7, Middle School Students, Science Activities
Yildirim, Halil Ibrahim – Participatory Educational Research, 2020
This study aims to determine the effect of using out-of-school learning environments in science teaching on motivation for learning science. It is a quasi-experimental study and it has been designed as pre- and posttest experimental study. The study was carried out with seventh grade students enrolled in a secondary school in the city centre of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 7, Secondary School Science
Yazicioglu, Özlem; Pektas, Murat – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2018
Comparative education is important for recognising the education systems of different countries for bringing new practices into the education system and for ensuring educational equality among different societies. This study discusses the education systems of Turkey, Singapore and Kazakhstan. The science programmes of the three countries are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Middle Schools, Science Instruction
Say, Fuat Serkan; Özmen, Haluk – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2018
The aim of this study is to determine the effect of concept cartoons on 7th grade students' acquiring the concepts in "The Structure and Properties of Matter" chapter. To reach this aim concept cartoons involving students' preconceptions and alternative conceptions about the concepts in the unit were developed. The data of the research…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, Secondary School Science, Scientific Concepts
Kurt, Uluhan; Tas, Yasemin – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2019
The aim of this study is to examine how parents' support for their children's science homework and the goal orientation of students in science homework predict their deep learning and management strategies that students use when doing homework. For this purpose, among quantitative research approaches, correlational method was used in the study.…
Descriptors: Homework, Goal Orientation, Learning Strategies, Parent Child Relationship
Akpullukcu, Simge; Cavas, Bulent – Science Education International, 2017
The purpose of this paper is to develop a "valid and reliable laboratory safety questionnaire" which could be used to identify science teachers' understanding about laboratory safety issues during their science laboratory activities. The questionnaire was developed from a literature review and prior instruments developed on laboratory…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Questionnaires, Laboratory Safety, Secondary School Science
Izci, Kemal – Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health, 2017
Representation of nature of science (NOS) within curricula including standards, grade level expectations, and textbooks and their alignment with each other to achieve teaching NOS is crucial. Thus, the aims of the study were to a) assess how NOS is portrayed in standards, grade level expectations and a teacher edition of seventh grade textbook of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Principles, Science Curriculum, Textbooks
Cansiz, Nurcan; Cansiz, Mustafa – Online Submission, 2016
The purpose of this study was to explore the orientations preservice science teachers (PST) hold in preparing to teach science to middle schoolers and how their beliefs were reflected in their CoRes. As the framework to evaluate PSTs' orientations, Magnusson, Krajcik, and Borko's (1999) nine orientations were utilized. Eleven senior preservice…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Science Instruction
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