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Download full textLi, Haiying; Gobert, Janice; Dickler, Rachel – Grantee Submission, 2019
Prior studies on scaffolding for investigative inquiry practices (i.e. forming a question/hypothesis, collecting data, and analyzing and interpreting data [21]) revealed that students who received scaffolding were better able to both learn practices and transfer these competencies to new topics than were students who did not receive scaffolding.…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Questioning Techniques, Performance Factors, Active Learning
Tull, Delena – 1990
An ethnographic study was conducted with the goal of evaluating the botanical concepts of sixth-grade students. One aspect of the study involved examination of the levels of abstraction students use for naming plants. Nine sixth-grade students were interviewed individually. Each was asked to identify the plants seen in a set of 64 slides and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Classification, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
Tull, Delena – 1992
The assertion that there is a social component to children's construction of knowledge about natural phenomena is supported by evidence from an examination of children's classification schemes for plants. An ethnographic study was conducted with nine sixth grade children in central Texas. The children classified plants in the outdoors, in a…
Descriptors: Botany, Class Activities, Classification, Cognitive Structures
Tull, Delena – 1991
An ethnographic study was conducted with the goal of comparing the botanical knowledge of nine sixth grade students with the botanical concepts developed in the elementary textbook series, Science, by Silver Burdett, 1985. The extent to which the child's conceptual framework resembles that of the scientist and the extent to which the textbook…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biology, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Greenberg, J.; Daniel, E.; Massey, J.; White, P. – 2000
The Plant Information Center (PIC) is a project funded under the Institute of Museum and Library Studies that aims to provide global access to both primary and secondary botanical resources via the World Wide Web. Central to the project is the development and employment of a series of applications that facilitate resource discovery, interactive…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Botany, Computer Uses in Education, Databases
