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ERIC Number: EJ1297016
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 6
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0036-8148
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Stepping Out in Style: Engineering Wearables in a Virtual Learning Environment Fosters Digital Literacy and Science and Engineering Learning
Hoffman, Jennifer
Science and Children, v58 n5 p91-96 May-Jun 2021
Recently, many students experienced a sudden shift to virtual learning. During this abrupt transition, Jennifer Hoffman helped her students adapt to online learning by employing user-friendly tools to best support students' digital literacy and science learning. In this article, she explains an instructional module that she created for fifth-grade students to help them better understand ways people and communities protect the Earth's resources and environment, as specified in the "Next Generation Science Standards" (NGSS Lead States 2013). Students designed and constructed wearables, made mostly from paper, to address paper pollution and its adverse impact on the environment. As the online unit of study progressed, students strengthened their digital literacy skills with respect to safeguarding their privacy, being courteous, employing safe research practices, effectively collaborating, and using digital content and materials in new and creative ways. Hoffman designed the online learning activities to scaffold students' understanding of essential science content and engineering practices that resulted in a collaborative, supportive virtual classroom.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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