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Seokmin Kang; MingTsan Lu; John B. Black; Sungyeun Kim – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2024
Background: The theory of embodied cognition claims that body interaction with the environment change how we think and constitute cognition. Accordingly, active learning enriches learning experiences which in turn lead to better learning. Purpose: Although learning by moving one's body is often regarded as active learning, not all body movements…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Disadvantaged Youth, Public Schools
Caterina Solé; Digna Couso; María Isabel Hernández – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2024
Citizen science has proven to be a useful paradigm both to contribute to science and to increase the public understanding of science. Thus the connection between citizen science and schools offers an interesting approach to explore. However, a lot of questions and challenges remain unclear, such as the balance between scientific and educational…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Science Education, Literature Reviews, Goal Orientation
Sarah J. Carrier; Lindsey H. Sachs; Jill M. McGowan; Meredith Hayes; P. Sean Smith; Christine L. Goforth; Sarah E. Safley – International Journal of Science Education, 2025
Science education is an important component of a full education beginning in primary grades. In recent decades, research has identified young learners' rich knowledge of the natural world and their potential to connect with sophisticated science ideas. Elementary teachers face many challenges to implementing reform-based science instruction in…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Science Education, Citizen Participation, Elementary School Science
Shiyu Xu; Michael J. Reiss; Wilton Lodge – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2025
This study introduces a Comprehensive Scientific Creativity Assessment (C-SCA) instrument and empirically tests its reliability and validity. While existing instruments to measure scientific creativity generally focus on a single dimension, such as divergent thinking, the C-SCA incorporates scientific knowledge, motivation in scientific creativity…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Science Process Skills, Creativity, Creative Thinking
Zhang, Jianwei; Tian, Yan; Yuan, Guangji; Tao, Dan – Science Education, 2022
As a hallmark of authentic science practices, students need to enact epistemic agency to shape/reshape the key aspects of their inquiry work as a collaborative community. This study elaborates an emergent temporal mechanism for engaging students' epistemic agency: "reflective structuration" by which members of a classroom community…
Descriptors: Science Education, Inquiry, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
García-Fernández, Beatriz; Sobrino-Costoso, Carlos-Emeterio; Ruiz-Gallardo, José-Reyes – Research in Science Education, 2022
The research compares teachers' and their pupils' performance on plant nutrition. The misconceptions of 89 primary school children from one state school have been compared with those of their four teachers. A questionnaire and a drawing task were used for data collection. The results evidence that children and teachers have serious shortcomings…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), Misconceptions, Scientific Concepts, Elementary School Students
Recker, Abigail; Mulvey, Bridget; Ortiz, Joseph – Science and Children, 2022
Throughout the country, there are many bodies of fresh water affected by algal blooms. By focusing on a water source near their school, students can become scientists, too. Situating science content in real and meaningful learning experiences encourages students to be invested in their own learning, construct deeper understandings, and apply those…
Descriptors: Water, Natural Resources, Grade 3, Elementary School Science
Alliston, Caroline – Primary Science, 2022
The climate emergency is a source of anxiety for many young people. Images of drought, heat waves, wildfires, storms and flooding are increasingly appearing in the media. Today's children stand to be the recipients of our legacy of climate change, while not feeling empowered to do anything about it, so perhaps it is no wonder they are anxious.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Climate, Ecology, World Problems
Essex, Jane – Primary Science, 2022
In this article, the author champions the benefits for everyone of a more inclusive approach to primary science. She relates some of her experiences based on 35 years of teaching science to people with special educational needs and disabilities/additional support needs (SEND/ASN) and offers some tips to enhance inclusion.
Descriptors: Inclusion, Elementary School Science, Students with Disabilities, Special Needs Students
Grimshaw, Michele – Primary Science, 2022
In this article, the author recounts how giving pupils access to diverse role models not only benefits those from underrepresented groups, but ensures all children see that science is a subject for everyone. Teachers need to be aware of the culture of their pupils and ask how that can be used to engage and extend scientific understanding.
Descriptors: Role Models, Cultural Differences, Culturally Relevant Education, Student Diversity
Ozkaya, Ali; Bulut, Sait; Sahin, Gizem – Asian Journal of Contemporary Education, 2022
This study aims to evaluate the impact of STEM education on the creative design skills of trainee teachers. The sample for the study was made up of third-year prospective teachers studying at the Department of Science Education and Department of Elementary Mathematics Education in the 2020-2021 school year. Embedded mixed design, which is a type…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Design, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Mathematics
Silva, Maria João – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2023
Background: To contribute to smart, inclusive, sustainable, and multisensory practices in science education, this paper presents research that studied the use of electronic sensors by children to address a sound pollution problem in their school. A didactic sequence was specifically designed and implemented to that purpose. Participants: The…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Acoustics, Pollution
Jeong, Sophia; Steele, David – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2023
The purpose of this study is to describe the conditions under which diffracting noticing becomes both a process and product in dynamic relations to re-imagine preservice science teachers' becoming as ethical mattering, a concept rooted in a relational ontology of change and emergence. Drawing on theories of posthumanism, this study theorized…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Ethics, Elementary School Science, Methods Courses
Sá-Pinto, Xana; Pessoa, Patrícia; Pinto, Alexandre; Cardia, Pedro – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2023
Several researchers and scientific institutions argue that evolution should be explored from the first school years. However, few studies have analysed primary school students' understanding of evolutionary processes or evaluated the impact of educational activities on such knowledge. The available data: (1) suggest that primary school students…
Descriptors: Evolution, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction
Eunju Kang; Hai Suk Kim – Asia-Pacific Science Education, 2023
Visual images are widely used in science textbooks to facilitate the understanding of abstract concept of light. This study aims to compare and analyze elementary school textbooks from Korea, the United States, and Japan, focusing on how visual images are utilized to effectively convey light-related content. The findings reveal that all three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Textbook Content, Science Instruction