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Harshbarger, Dena; Wiechman, Joseph – Science and Children, 2021
This article describes a force and motion unit that spanned four weeks (50 minutes a day) in a fifth-grade classroom. The inquiry-based learning progression mirrors Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development (1952) because it allowed students to manipulate materials and ideas as they actively constructed and reconstructed their knowledge of motion…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Science, Engineering Education, Physics
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Deniz, Hasan; Dulger, Mehmet F. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2012
This study examined to what extent inquiry-based instruction supported with real-time graphing technology improves fourth grader's ability to interpret graphs as representations of physical science concepts such as motion and temperature. This study also examined whether there is any difference between inquiry-based instruction supported with…
Descriptors: Graphs, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Inquiry