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Teachers' Support in Developing Year 7 Students' Argumentation Skills about Water-Based Socioscientific Issues
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Vaille Dawson – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
Internationally, there are calls for students to be able to use their scientific understandings to make informed decisions about the world in which they live. Using a mixed methods case study design, this study investigated the impact of behaviours and strategies used by two early career science teachers who taught argumentation about a…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science and Society, Scientific Literacy, Secondary School Teachers
The Effects of Socio-Scientific STEM Activities on 21st Century Skills of Middle School Students
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Benek, Ibrahim; Akcay, Behiye – Participatory Educational Research, 2022
In this study, the effects of the STEM activities integrated with socio-scientific issues on students' 21st century skills were investigated. In this research, nested mixed design was used. The study group of this research consisted of 16 middle school students who studied in the seventh grade of a public school in an eastern province of Turkey.…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Science Activities, STEM Education, Instructional Effectiveness
From Global to Local
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Kinslow, Andrew; Sadler, Troy; Friedrichsen, Patricia; Zangori, Laura; Peel, Amanda; Graham, Kerri – Science Teacher, 2017
The global scale of climate change may seem beyond many high school students' comprehension. To complicate matters, climate change has emerged as a political issue that pits candidates, neighbors, and sometimes teachers and students against each other (Kahan 2015). The "Next Generation Science Standards" (NGSS Lead States 2013) call on…
Descriptors: Climate, Ecology, Science and Society, Secondary School Science
Earthquakes & Volcanoes. The Natural Disaster Series. Grades 4-8.
Deery, Ruth – 1985
The topics of earthquakes and volcanoes are important to children but are often missing from elementary science textbooks. This document is a part of "The Natural Disaster Series" and is an attempt to supplement elementary science programs with lessons and student activities. Reasoning skills are also stressed throughout the document.…
Descriptors: Earthquakes, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Geology
The Teaching of Science and Technology in an Interdisciplinary Context. Approaches for the Primary School. Science and Technology Education Document Series No. 19.
MacLeod, Sinclair; Mills, George – 1986
Prepared as a part of UNESCO's program in the teaching of science and technology, this pilot project was specifically designed to test interdisciplinary approaches in several countries and to disseminate the results to other interested countries. This guide reviews two approaches developed from the Scottish Primary Science Development Project and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Foreign Countries, Integrated Activities
Science and Social Issues. Competency Based Curriculum Guide.
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Office of Instruction. – 1983
The Social Issues course is designed to help students make rational and constructive decisions regarding various social and environmental problems. It is intended to be used with 10, 11, or 12th grade students. This course contains units on decision-making, urban planning, food and nutrition, environmental pollution, nuclear energy, and resource…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Environmental Education, Minimum Competencies, Natural Resources