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Greitans, Karlis; Namsone, Dace – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2021
This review study includes 19 articles from 2016 to 2021 focusing on in-service science teachers' professional development targeted to promote student conceptual understanding. The present study is guided by the following research question: "What characterizes high-quality in-service science teachers' professional development targeted to…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Concept Formation, Scientific Concepts, Intervention
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Rushworth, Christine – Primary Science, 2020
In this article, the author, a teacher at Cookridge Primary School in Leeds, West Yorkshire, reflects on the teaching of science from reception across the year groups. To really compare and understand the differences of teaching science in early years, the author looks at its place in the progression of science throughout primary school. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Science Process Skills
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Zacharia, Zacharias C.; Loizou, Eleni; Papaevripidou, Marios – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether physicality (actual and active touch of concrete material), as such, is a necessity for science experimentation learning at the kindergarten level. We compared the effects of student experimentation with Physical Manipulatives (PM) and Virtual Manipulatives (VM) on kindergarten students'…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Young Children, Kindergarten, Science Experiments