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Levy Nahum, Tami; Ben-Chaim, David; Azaiza, Ibtesam; Herskovitz, Orit; Zoller, Uri – International Journal of Science Education, 2010
Today's society is continuously coping with sustainability-related complex issues in the Science-Technology-Environment-Society (STES) interfaces. In those contexts, the need and relevance of the development of students' higher-order cognitive skills (HOCS) such as question-asking, critical-thinking, problem-solving and decision-making…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Science Education, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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France, Bev – Studies in Science Education, 2007
The first section of this article examines a range of definitions of biotechnology. This analysis demonstrates that teachers' choices will determine their view of biotechnology, as positioned along a traditional-modern, axis, and provides examples of the tensions that these differing positions create. A further section argues that in order for…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Biotechnology, Science Education, Definitions
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. – 1986
Designed to serve as a preliminary guide for curriculum development and science instruction in South Carolina, this booklet identifies basic skill objectives in science for grades one through eight. Categories of South Carolina's Basic Skills Assessment Program (BSAP) for science include: (1) science concepts; (2) science process skills; (3)…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Junior High Schools