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Dare, Emily Anna; Keratithamkul, Khomson; Hiwatig, Benny Mart; Li, Feng – Education Sciences, 2021
Understanding teachers' conceptions surrounding integrated STEM education is vital to the successful implementation of integrated STEM curricula in K-12 classrooms. Of particular interest is understanding how teachers conceptualize the role of the STEM disciplines within their integrated STEM teaching. Further, despite knowing that…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Careers, Career Awareness, Science Teachers
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Redman, Erin – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2013
Teacher education for sustainability is a central part of integrating sustainability into classrooms and schools. However, educating for sustainability is not limited to increased content knowledge; rather it encompasses different forms of knowledge that embrace the normative, dynamic and action-oriented nature of sustainability. Curriculum for a…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Elementary Secondary Education, Case Studies, Curriculum Development
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Kurz, Terri L.; Bartholomew, Barbara – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2012
Literature is viewed as a natural "thinking" medium to help children experience learning in a contextual setting (Ward 2005). Though, as Draper (2002) contended, mathematics is a subject that children are often unable to recognize as useful in their lives, literature with mathematical components may be able to address this concern. Combining…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Literacy, Mathematics Skills, Problem Solving
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de Freitas, Elizabeth; Bentley, Sean J. – International Journal of Educational Research, 2012
This paper reports on research from a network of high school and museum partnerships designed to explore techniques for integrating mathematics and physics learning experiences during the first year of high school. The foundation of the curriculum is a problem-based, museum-based, and hands-on approach to mathematics and physics. In this paper, we…
Descriptors: Integrated Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach, Learning Theories, Museums
Rule, Audrey C.; Barrera, Manuel T., III – Online Submission, 2008
Integration of subject areas with technology and thinking skills is a way to help teachers cope with today's overloaded curriculum and to help students see the connectedness of different curriculum areas. This study compares three authentic approaches to teaching a science unit on bird adaptations for habitat that integrate thinking skills and…
Descriptors: Animals, Self Efficacy, Problem Based Learning, Scores
Falkenberg, Karen; McClure, Patricia; McComb, Errin M. – SERVE Center for Continuous Improvement at UNCG, 2006
In considering science in afterschool, research was reviewed and is presented in this document on how students learn science; how science is assessed, particularly inquiry science; recommended practices for afterschool science; and current afterschool science programs. Databases such as ERIC, Wilson Web, and PsychINFO were searched using…
Descriptors: Student Projects, After School Programs, Active Learning, Skill Development
National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, 2008
As part of the usual end of year meeting that has been a feature of the National Center for Engineering and Technology Education (NCETE) project, a conference intending to provide a forum for young voices in an outside of the Center was organized. The basic model for the gathering was borrowed from track and field. This was to be an intellectual…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Educational Technology, Program Effectiveness, Self Efficacy