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Buber, Ayse; Unal Coban, Gul – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2020
The purpose of this paper is to present an activity based on the integration of modeling and STEM to answer a real-life question related to volcanism which is a continuously unobservable but important phenomenon for many countries. For this purpose, firstly an activity was developed about volcanic eruptions to model the characteristics of volcanic…
Descriptors: Models, STEM Education, Predictor Variables, Physical Geography
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Bozkurt, Fisun – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2019
This descriptive study is centred on the representation of climate concepts in the geography textbook and academic books. The study mainly examined how the concepts, which were determined by considering the misconceptions in our previous studies, were presented in the 9th grade newly-published geography textbook and academic books. Also, the study…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Climate, Misconceptions, Scientific Concepts
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Yazici, Öznur – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2020
The field of research in physical geography relates to subjects such as place-shaping, climatic events, soil formation, vegetation development, the water cycle, and the nature and use of natural resources including underground mining processes. In order for humans to survive and facilitate their daily lives, they must have sufficient knowledge…
Descriptors: Physical Geography, Geography Instruction, Educational Trends, Foreign Countries
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Urbanska, Magdalena; Charzynski, Przemyslaw; Gadsby, Helen; Novák, Tibor József; Sahin, Salih; Yilmaz, Monica Denise – Education Sciences, 2022
Teaching geography creates an opportunity for the transfer of knowledge about environmental problems and ways of solving them. Teachers from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Turkey, and the United Kingdom indicated strengths and weaknesses of physical geography as well as the selected geographical concepts of: Maps/Cartography,…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Environmental Education
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Inel, Yusuf; Urhan, Emrah – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2020
This study aims to find out the effect of activities and practices on concept education to help carry out activities to teach these concepts more effectively and permanently, and determine student preconceptions about the concepts related to the landforms in the 5th-grade social studies curriculum in the learning subdomain called "People,…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Concept Teaching, Geographic Concepts, Physical Geography
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Kaya, Bastürk; Aladag, Caner – International Education Studies, 2017
The objective of this study is to determine the cognitive structures of the students of geography teaching department by identifying their conceptual frameworks about the concept of earthquake. A case study design from qualitative research approaches was used in this research. Sample group of the study constitutes 155 students from the Department…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction, Physical Geography, Preservice Teachers
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Balci, Ali – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2012
The aim of this study is to establish expectations of 5th grade students from Marmara University's Department of Geography Teaching on geographical field study in Western Anatolia. For this reason, a field study trip was organized to Western Anatolia. A survey, which was consisted of open-ended questions, was prepared by experts and it was…
Descriptors: Field Trips, Human Geography, Grade 5, Geography Instruction
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Kaya, Huseyin – Educational Research and Reviews, 2010
This research was conducted to reveal the metaphors of Secondary school students about "earthquake" concept. About 105 students in two schools in Karabuk city centre participated in the research within 2009-2010 academic year. The research Data were obtained by students' completing the statement "Earthquake is like...,…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Student Attitudes, Content Analysis, Secondary School Students