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James Deehan; Amy MacDonald – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2023
Professional development has long been viewed as crucial to sustained improvement in the quality of primary science education. This paper considers professional development beyond the context of a specific program by examining how the science teaching efficacy beliefs and practices vary between teachers who both have and have not engaged with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Teachers, Science Instruction
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Hayat Hokayem; Ihsan Ghazal; Savannah R. Graham – Science Education International, 2023
This study explored elementary students' reasoning about the life cycles of various organisms, including insects and amphibians. The study took place in a private school in Lebanon with 24 fifth-grade students. Students participated in a life cycle unit with pre and post-written assessments about what they learned and interviews to help determine…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Biology, Science Education
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John Bosco Acharibasam; Janet McVittie – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2023
In this paper, we draw on the ontology and epistemology of the local Kasena ethnic group in Northern Ghana to explore Early Childhood Environmental Education. The study, taking place in Boania Primary School, drew on the concept of two-eyed seeing, where both western and Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies were taught. In this way, Indigenous…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Ecology, Early Childhood Education, Environmental Education
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Xavier Fazio; Stephen Kemmis; Jessica Zugic – Science Education, 2025
Science teachers struggle to implement and sustain new curricular ideas from professional development (PD) experiences. These PD opportunities are crucial for enacting real-world changes to teaching practice and address pressing global challenges, such as the teaching and learning of socioscientific topics nested in school communities.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Science, Secondary School Teachers
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Qi Si; Jee K. Suh; Jale Ercan-Dursun; Brian Hand; Gavin W. Fulmer – International Journal of Science Education, 2025
Language is a fundamental tool for learning science. This study highlights the importance of teacher knowledge in utilising language as a tool for knowledge generation in the classrooms. This case study examines elementary teachers' development of declarative, procedural, and epistemic knowledge related to using language, particularly focusing on…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Epistemology, Knowledge Level, Elementary School Science
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Martin Schwichow; Anastasios Zoupidis – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
Floating and sinking (FS) is a key topic in science education, both at primary and secondary levels. The interpretation of FS phenomena, however, is challenging due to the difficulty of the scientific concepts and explanatory models involved (e.g., density, buoyancy), along with students' everyday experiences, which conflict with scientific…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Science Education, Meta Analysis, Effect Size
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Kelly Schucker; Mary B. Mcvee; Christopher J. Jarmark; Lynn E. Shanahan – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2024
Situated in an elementary afterschool Engineering Literacies Club framed around multiliteracies and the engineering design process, this article explores engineering habits of mind and disciplinary literacies. Disciplinary literacies encourage students to read, write, think, and act like historians, mathematicians, scientists, or engineers by…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Elementary School Science, Elementary Schools, Engineering Education
Tiffany Fowler – ProQuest LLC, 2024
With the 2015 change in science standards to align more closely with the Next Generation Science Standards, as the district STEM coach, I saw a need for professional development that addressed the lack of understanding and skill needed to teach the Science and Engineering Practices, specifically the practice of Scientific Augmentation. This…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development
Sarah F. Stallings – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Despite reform efforts and calls to accept science as a primary subject in elementary school curriculum and instruction (NRC 2007, 2012), science is still often neglected, deprioritized, minimally taught, or taught through traditional methods where teachers and textbooks are the gatekeepers of knowledge (Banilower, 2019; Banilower et al., 2018;…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Elementary School Science, Educational Change, Science Education
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Mirjana Maricic; Stanko Cvjeticanin; Branko Andic; Mia Maric; Aleksandar Petojevic – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2024
This research aimed to determine the effectiveness of applying instructive simulation experiments (SE) to the development of deeper conceptual understanding, retention of static electricity contents, and engagement of 4th-grade students. The correlation between student achievements and engagement was examined. 76 4th graders (10-11 years) were…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Science Education, Energy, Science Experiments
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Andy Markwick; Michael J. Reiss – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
The worrying decline in the status of primary school science in schools in England has been linked to low teacher confidence in teaching science and to schools being heavily focused on achievement in English and mathematics. This article reports on a novel professional learning strategy that was provided for 23 primary science leaders over five…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Self Efficacy, Teacher Leadership, Faculty Development
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Anica Miller-Rushing; Alexandria Brasili – School Science and Mathematics, 2024
In-service teachers implementing a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) curriculum centered on computational thinking (CT) work with unique content and pedagogical experiences. Understanding how curriculum design and teacher professional development affect curriculum implementation can help researchers understand the critical aspects…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Design
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Harriet R. Tenenbaum; Jo Van Herwegen – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
Many technological applications (apps) purport to help children learn academic material. Building on research in developmental and educational psychology, we developed and tested an app to teach biological and physical science content to preschool children. There were 21 children in the control condition (M[subscript age] = 50.30 months, SD =…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Elementary School Science, Science Education, Science Instruction
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F. Chris Curran; Mark B. Pacheco; Lelydeyvis Boza; Katharine Harris-Walls; Tiffany Tan; Amber Deig – AERA Open, 2024
Multilingual learners (MLs) represent an increasing proportion of public school students. Although much attention has been given to their academic performance in English language arts and math, less research has addressed their academic performance in science, particularly in elementary school. This study leveraged nationally representative data…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Bilingual Students, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science
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Hira Javed; Muhammad Athar Hussain; Mubeshera Tufail – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2024
Traditional teaching practices lack student-focused learning, critical thinking, interactivity, creativity and student's engagement in the classroom, which results in boredom and low motivation among students. Moreover, these practices disregard diversification or variability in learners in a classroom. To engage such learners and create better…
Descriptors: Usability, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Academic Achievement
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