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Direct linkWilliam J. Therrien; Vivian C. Wong; Ling Chen; Christina M. Taylor; Jennifer L. Chiu; Bruna Gonçalves; Qing Liu; Bryan G. Cook; Christian T. Doabler; Elizabeth Swanson; Priscilla B. Brame; Shannon Budin; Eunsoo Cho; Sheila J. Conway; Kimberley M. Davis; Michael W. Dunn; Michael N. Faggella-Luby; Jenna Gersib; Zaira Jimenez; Rachel L. Juergensen; Sharlene A. Kiuhara; Erica S. Lembke; Amelia K. Moody; Jared R. Morris; Reagan Murnan; Cherish M. Sarmiento; Cassandra M. Smith; R. Alex Smith; Michael Solis; Heidi R. Stinchcomb – Science Education, 2025
Elementary science education, particularly in the 4th and 5th grades, is essential for setting the foundation for lifelong science learning, fostering critical thinking, and preparing students for success in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. This stage is especially critical for students with disabilities, as…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Grade 4, Grade 5
Navarro Martell, Melissa Arabel – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2021
Language usage in US K-12 classrooms and beyond continues to be an issue of equity (Navarro Martell, 2021; Palmer et al., 2019). Teachers expect racialized students who appear to be Latinx to know and perform as if their native language is Spanish, mientras a otros se les celebra sus intentos de usar el espan~ol; otro idioma colonizador. Some…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Language Usage, Code Switching (Language), Spanish
Robert Walldén; Pia N. Larsson – Science Education, 2024
Although visual aids are widely considered a valuable source of scaffolding, the nature and active utilization of these aids in current science classrooms are not well understood. This qualitative study explores interaction in the teaching of concepts related to evolution, with a specific focus on a teacher's use of different visual support…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Rebecca Woodard; Amanda R. Diaz; Nathan C. Phillips; Maria Varelas; Rachelle Tsachor; Rebecca Kotler; Ronan Rock; Miguel Melchor – Literacy, 2024
A team of literacy, science, and theatre educators have been working to engage children in an urban public school system in the United States through embodied performances, where students embody and dramatise science ideas. This study focuses on one fourth-grade classroom when instruction was done remotely due to Covid-19. Children in the class…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Educational Technology, Science Instruction, Teacher Collaboration
Edmondson, Elizabeth; Choudhry, Fahima – School Science and Mathematics, 2018
This study investigates whether elementary science teachers participating in a four-week professional development workshop develop new understandings about classroom discourse and whether they are able to implement strategies toward teaching science as student-to-student discourse. Perspectives and the extent of teacher use of discourse strategies…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Workshops, Grade 4
Probyn, Margie – Classroom Discourse, 2019
The majority of learners in South African schools are African language speakers, yet the dominance of English in the political economy has meant that schools choose to switch to English medium instruction by Grade 4, before learners have the necessary English proficiency to access the curriculum, with negative effects on learning. This paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Code Switching (Language), Bilingualism, Bilingual Education
Download full textMurugan Mini Ratamun; Kamisah Osman – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2018
The aim of the research is to assess the effectiveness of Virtual Lab (experimental group) compared to Physical Lab (control group) in the level of Science Process Skill mastery of topic salt experiment. This research also was done to compare the students' level of Science Process Skill mastery by gender and to find interaction effect between…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Laboratory Experiments, Computer Simulation, Science Instruction
Schleigh, Sharon – Science and Children, 2014
While most of us probably don't think of teachers as scientists, the truth of the matter is that teachers actually follow many of the scientific processes that scientists use to help them be effective. Teachers have to find ways to measure student learning and to use that measurement to inform their teaching practices. They need to know what…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Journal Writing, Teaching Methods
Mohammadjani, Farzad; Tonkaboni, Forouzan – International Education Studies, 2015
The aim of the present research is to investigate a comparison between the effect of cooperative learning teaching method and lecture teaching method on students' learning and satisfaction level. The research population consisted of all the fourth grade elementary school students of educational district 4 in Shiraz. The statistical population…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning, Questionnaires, Test Reliability
Thadani, Vandana; Roth, Kathleen J.; Garnier, Helen E.; Seyarto, Melanie C.; Thompson, Jennifer L.; Froidevaux, Nicole M. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2018
We investigated what a cognitive framework for measuring classroom teaching could reveal about (a) the impact of a professional development (PD) program on teaching practices and (b) the relationship between teaching practices and student science learning. To conduct this study, we leveraged a collaboration between two entirely independent…
Descriptors: Models, Faculty Development, Teaching Methods, Classroom Techniques
Zinger, Doron; Van Es, Elizabeth A.; Hughes, Brad – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Inquiry science instruction is especially challenging in elementary grades where teachers are constrained by crowded curricula and time. Professional development (PD) may provide an opportunity to support elementary teacher development of inquiry science instruction. The study examines the inquiry practice of two teachers who participated in an…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Science Instruction
Kiramba, Lydiah Kananu – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
This paper uses sociocultural theories of language learning to investigate how teachers and students navigate between monolingual institutional policies and the multilingual realities encountered in a rural Kenyan fourth-grade classroom. The paper addresses not only how learners' communicative repertoires are deployed to make meaning in a…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
Gonczi, Amanda; Maeng, Jennifer; Bell, Randy – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2017
The purpose of this study was to characterize and compare 64 elementary science teachers' computer simulation use prior to and following professional development (PD) aligned with Innovation Adoption Theory. The PD highlighted computer simulation affordances that elementary teachers might find particularly useful. Qualitative and quantitative…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development, Inquiry, Active Learning
Majida "Mohammed Yousef" Dajani – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2017
This qualitative interpretive study aimed to explore the use of content-based story writing as an educative curriculum to promote science teachers' professional learning. It also aimed to help teachers interact and reflect on their students' science stories to generate and explore content and pedagogical content knowledge. This study was carried…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Science Instruction, Foreign Countries, Video Technology
Seah, Lay Hoon; Yore, Larry D. – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
This study of three science teachers' lessons on heat and temperature seeks to characterise classroom talk that highlighted the ways language is used and to examine the nature of the language demands revealed in constructing, negotiating, arguing and communicating science ideas. The transcripts from the entire instructional units for these…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Heat, Thermodynamics
