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What Makes This Lesson Engineering? What Makes It Science? Examining the Thought Processes of Pre-Service Elementary Teachers

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Jacob Pleasants; Jennifer Parrish – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2025

Elementary teachers are navigating a curriculum landscape in which engineering activities now exist alongside science. Teacher education should prepare future elementary teachers to be critical curators of curriculum resources, which includes appraising the extent to which engineering and science activities authentically reflect those fields. To…

Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Cognitive Processes, Science Education