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Download full textBirse, Margaret – 1996
Many primary school teachers feel a lack of confidence in teaching science and technology. This paper aims to demonstrate useful and practical strategies for non-specialist science teachers to use in stimulating a positive scientific attitude among primary school students. It proposes that teachers should strive to develop children's natural…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Design, Discovery Learning, Discovery Processes
Earl, F. A. – Performance and Instruction, 1982
Examines backward chaining, a method of producing demonstration films in which sequential steps in a procedure are taught backwards; that is, the last step is taught first, then the next to the last step, and so on. A film designed to teach procedures used in a science experiment is used as an example. (JJD)
Descriptors: Demonstrations (Educational), Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Instructional Design
van Keulen, Hanno; And Others – 1994
Distillation in the chemistry laboratory is an essential part of a practicing chemists' and a chemistry educators' work. Nevertheless, regardless of the degree of importance in each of the aforementioned professions, few educational studies on teaching and learning distillation exist. In an effort to rectify this oversight, the Department of…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Classroom Research, College Science, Concept Formation
Poel, Christopher Jon; Homan, Robert M. – 1997
Language teachers with little or no experience in conducting research are guided through the process of deciding what kind of classroom research to undertake, and how to organize and implement it. In question-and-answer format, four types of research are defined and explained separately: action, survey, correlational, and experimental studies. For…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Research Implications for Science and Mathematics Teachers. Volume 1. Key Centre Monograph Number 5.
Fraser, Barry J., Ed. – 1993
This document was compiled to help keep science and mathematics teachers in Australia abreast of the results of important research endeavors in education. The monograph is divided into 12 chapters. Chapter one, "Exemplary Science and Mathematics Teachers," (Barry Fraser and Kenneth Tobin) describes a study focusing on examples of…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Demonstration Programs, Diagrams
