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Download full textMaulidyanawati Aqmarina Ma'Ruufah; Triyanto; Riyadi – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2024
Strengthening civic literacy needs to be done because this can help individuals become more critical, active, and responsible citizens. Strong civic literacy can help a person understand his rights and obligations as a citizen, as well as how to participate in political and governmental processes. It can also help individuals make informed…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Student Attitudes, Civics, Citizen Participation
Direct linkHui Zhang; Chang Zhu; Guoyuan Sang; Frederik Questier – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2024
Digital media literacy education has become shared responsibility of all educators, school-based initiatives are considered to be a crucial component of digital media literacy education. This 10-week intervention study explores the effects of digital media literacy (DML) course on students' digital media literacy. The participants were 58 fifth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Digital Literacy
Sarah J. Carrier; Lindsey H. Sachs; Jill M. McGowan; Meredith Hayes; P. Sean Smith; Christine L. Goforth; Sarah E. Safley – International Journal of Science Education, 2025
Science education is an important component of a full education beginning in primary grades. In recent decades, research has identified young learners' rich knowledge of the natural world and their potential to connect with sophisticated science ideas. Elementary teachers face many challenges to implementing reform-based science instruction in…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Science Education, Citizen Participation, Elementary School Science
Bird, Erin Bridges; Ballard, Heidi L.; Harte, Margaret – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2023
Youth-focused Community and Citizen Science (CCS) projects are contexts in which youth can contribute to the entire "data lifecycle"--from data-collection to decision-making with their scientific findings. But data alone does not contain the answers for what action to take and how. Using the educational context of an afterschool CCS bird…
Descriptors: Data Use, Decision Making, Elementary School Students, Educational Change
Saes Byul Kim – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Civic purpose involves both students' attitudinal and behavioral commitments to social causes and is critical for our young generation to flourish as human beings and to withhold a healthy democracy in the current social climate. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the relations among elementary students' social-, moral-…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5, Social Studies
Serena Halstead; Kevin Shropshire – Wake County Public School System, 2024
The Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) conducts a student survey in the spring of each year to determine the level of student engagement in and out of the classroom. Students who actively participate in their learning process generally experience higher academic achievement (Wang & Hofkens, 2020). The survey contains items from the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Student Surveys, Annual Reports, Grade 5
McGriff, Mary; Clemons, Shalise – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2019
The abilities to listen reflectively and speak respectfully concerning another person's opinion, as well as to think critically about that opinion and one's own, are essential to a functioning democracy. The teaching and learning of these abilities is well incorporated into the social studies and English language arts standards that are used to…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Civics, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
Haggerty, Bernadette.; Paige, Kathryn; O'Keeffe, Lisa – Teaching Science, 2023
This paper reports on a transdisciplinary approach to science with a Year 4/5 class incorporating citizen science through the Birds in Backyards project. This transdisciplinary approach created opportunities for student engagement through science, mathematics, design and technology, humanities and social sciences (HASS), arts and English, while…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Interdisciplinary Approach, Science Instruction, Grade 4
Stacy E. Ellis – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The researcher explored the impact of a student voice initiative (SVI), the Student Ambassador Council (SAC), on the social-emotional competencies (SECs) of middle school, 5th-8th grades students. Drawing upon the principles of youth empowerment, more specifically Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR), and social-emotional learning (SEL), the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Social Emotional Learning, Student Development
Muetterties, Carly; Slocum, Carrie; Masterson, Erin – Social Studies, 2020
Meaningful source work is at the heart of social studies learning, but often a tall order for elementary-aged students. In this article, the authors describe the construction and implementation of a fifth grade inquiry on the Suffrage Movement using a focused version of the Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Blueprint. Using source analysis scaffolds…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Voting
Julia Shields Chrestay; Kyra Atterbury, Contributor; Janet Chance, Contributor; Stecy Mbemba, Contributor; Helena Miller, Contributor; Joe Alberti, Contributor; Sara Caselle, Contributor; Suzanne Cilli, Contributor; Katherine Collier, Contributor; Erica Darken, Contributor; Emily Goedde, Contributor; Rochelle Krauss, Contributor; Bernadine Magee, Contributor; Noga Newberg, Contributor; An Nguyen, Contributor; Candice Smith, Contributor – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2024
Need in Deed's work with Philadelphia public school teachers and their students centers empathy, informed investigation, and civic action. Bolstered by these values and with the support of the My Voice framework and dedicated Need in Deed staff, educators are equipped to co-create authentic classroom communities with their students. In Need in…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Citizen Participation, Public School Teachers, Empathy
Whitlock, Annie McMahon – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2019
In this paper, I describe the implementation of a project-based economics unit in a fifth-grade classroom in Michigan, titled One Hen. One Hen is a curricular unit designed to teach students about social entrepreneurship as a way for students to learn economic concepts while developing their own civic efficacy by engaging in a project where they…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Elementary School Students, Economics Education
Hughes, Ryan E.; Thomson, Sarah L. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2016
Provide your students with handwritten letters from three young students to then U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, written a few months prior to the first celebration of Earth Day on April 22, 1970. These primary source historical documents can be a part of upper elementary students' exploration of civic activism in the service of…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Elementary School Students, Civics, Grade 5
McGuire, Margit E.; Nicholson, Karen; Rand, Allan – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2019
How do we preserve our civil society and dynamic political system and prepare students to be active citizens in a democratic society? The need for civic education is more essential now than ever before, and students deserve access to powerful civic lessons that actively engage them in learning about our democracy. The ultimate goal would be for…
Descriptors: Elections, Teaching Methods, Political Attitudes, Citizen Participation
Brunvand, Stein; Bouwman, Jeffrey – Science and Children, 2018
Citizen science projects have been found to increase scientific knowledge and awareness among the participants who engage in these collaborative efforts. Providing elementary students the opportunity to collect, share, and analyze data is an effective way to help them develop a deeper understanding of scientific concepts and gain competency in…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
