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Peer reviewedAllen-Sommerville, Lenola – Science Teacher, 1996
Describes the Science Bound project, a partnership aimed at increasing the participation of ethnic minority students in science and technology and encouraging them to prepare for careers as scientists, engineers, and technologists. Presents eight successful field-tested strategies for ensuring that students in multicultural settings learn science.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Cultural Context, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textBowers, Patricia Shane – 1987
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the 4MAT instructional system on achievement and attitudes in science. Fifty-four academically gifted sixth grade students in three schools in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro (North Carolina) City Schools were randomly assigned to two groups, a 4MAT group and a Restricted-Textbook group that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Style, Elementary School Science
Thomson, Barbara S. – 1993
The goals of this curriculum, developed as a summer course for the Young Scholars Program at The Ohio State University-Columbus, are as follows: (1) enable students to develop an understanding of the concept of a system; (2) help students gain an appreciation of the value of systems; (3) develop skills in working with systems; (4) expand skills in…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Cognitive Style, Course Content, Field Trips
Peer reviewedGabel, Dorothy; And Others – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1987
Reports on a study intended to determine the science education research interests of elementary teachers and to examine the data according to certain demographic variables. Results indicate that hands-on experience, science content, cognitive development and learning styles, problem solving, and teaching strategies were the top five research…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Demography, Elementary Education
Blosser, Patricia E., Ed.; Helgeson, Stanley L., Ed. – Investigations in Science Education, 1987
Abstracts and abstractors' critiques of ten published articles related to curriculum, misconception research, and instruction are presented. Aspects addressed in the studies include: (1) Canadian teachers' opinions on changes in elementary and junior high school science programs; (2) current status of ecology education in Illinois; (3)…
Descriptors: Biology, Chemistry, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
Foster, Gerald Wm., Ed. – 1987
This document contains the abstracts of the presentations made at this conference. Topics of presentations included: (1) linking research and science teaching using community resources; (2) planning science teacher workshops; (3) school-related recycling programs; (4) improving student attitudes toward science; (5) rural science teaching; (6)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College School Cooperation, College Science, Elementary School Science
