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Spring, Helen – Primary Science, 2019
In this article, Helen Spring explains how a 'wow' activity is a great place to start learning outside the classroom. It will enthuse both children and staff. Teachers new to outdoor learning can start with something simple like having students use double-sided sticky tape to collect as many colours as they can from the school grounds. Then look…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Science Instruction, Science Activities, Elementary School Science
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Radloff, Jeffrey; Capobianco, Brenda M. – Research in Science Education, 2021
The adoption of engineering design-based science teaching requires elementary teachers to modify their current science pedagogy, often resulting in tensions or hard choices they must make in their teaching practice. The purpose of this study is to identify, compare, and characterize the tensions faced by 45 grade 3 and grade 4 elementary teachers…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Engineering Education, Design
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Foster, Elizabeth – Learning Professional, 2021
Project-based learning is popular with many parents, students, and teachers because of its focus on problem-solving, critical thinking, creativity, and real-world application (Gallup, 2019). It encourages teachers to act as facilitators while students actively engage in teacherand student-posed learning challenges, working alone and in groups on…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Program Effectiveness, High Schools
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Kalyon, Demet Sahin – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2020
The aim of the study was to reveal the learning environments created by primary teachers in science classes and their teaching styles and compare them with the learning environments and teaching styles that their students dream of. Qualitative survey research design was used to find an answer to the research problem. In this study, the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction, Teacher Attitudes