Bridging the gap: Teachers, science, and technologySpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 11 - Trang 17-22 - 1999
Sally C. Mayberry, Donna P. Henry
This article reports an effort to implement reform in elementary science
classrooms. A biology professor and a science education professor created and
co-taught a course entitled SCI 501: Teaching Environmental Science and
Technology in Elementary School to Preservice and Inservice Teachers. The course
emphasized science content, science education methods, and technology under the
umbrella of envi... hiện toàn bộ
Editorial staffSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 19 - Trang iii-iii - 2007
The use of urban students’ photographs as a data source and the complexity of their elementary teacher’s interpretationsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 16 - Trang 33-50 - 2004
John Settlage
Photographs taken by urban students, along with the associated interview
transcripts, were provided to their teachers partway through the subsequent
school year. The teachers were prompted to describe their impressions of the
photos relative to their knowledge of the students. In addition, the teachers
were asked how these insights might shape their instructional practices. The
photographs proved ... hiện toàn bộ
Is direct experience enough? A study of young children’s views of soundsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 6 - Trang 1-16 - 1994
David P. Butts, Helen Marie Hofman, Margaret Anderson
Direct or hands-on experiences are considered by many to be the essential
conditions for acquiring new concepts or understandings. But are these
experiences enough? In this study with 115 five and six year old children, the
effect of direct experiences with sounds that vary in loudness and pitch were
contrasted with the effect of adding an instructional experience in which
children were involved i... hiện toàn bộ
Science as a favorite or least favorite subjectSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 2 - Trang 3-9 - 1990
H. Dale Luttrell, Betty C. Crocker
This study determined the percentage of third through sixth grade students
selecting science as their favorite, second favorite, or least favorite subject
in school and compared the results to Kyle, Bonnstetter, and Gadsden (1988).
Additionally, this study determined the percentage of third through sixth grade
teachers who recalled science as their favorite, second favorite, or least
favorite subj... hiện toàn bộ
Developing and assessing lower-ses Hispanic children's inferential thinking through a museum-school programSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 2 - Trang 21-36 - 1990
Marian L. Martinello, Megan E. Kromer
An interpretive tour of an ecology exhibit was integrated with classroom lessons
to develop scientific observing and inferring skills in lower socio-economic
status (SES) Hispanic children. Fourteen fourth-grade teachers were trained to
use the program. One hundred twenty-one (121) Hispanic children experienced the
program over six weeks and 128 children experienced the same program in a
two-week ... hiện toàn bộ