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Siry, Christina; Gorges, Anna – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
This manuscript elaborates the value of looking beyond the written and spoken word in science education research and practice at the early childhood level. We examine one plurilingual child's descriptions of a science activity to explore the "diversity of resources" that she used while expressing her understandings of a sound…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Science Instruction, Nonverbal Communication, Freehand Drawing
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Coppola, Brian P.; Lawton, Richard G. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1995
Presents an activity in which college chemistry students collaboratively identify chemical substances. (MKR)
Descriptors: Chemical Analysis, Chemistry, Classroom Communication, Cooperation
Carlsen, William S. – 1990
This paper analyzes discrepant findings from research on science teacher knowledge and classroom discourse. In new science teachers' classrooms, discourse during laboratory activities differed in important ways from discourse during other types of instruction. Furthermore, teacher subject-matter knowledge had effects that were not predicted by the…
Descriptors: Biology, Classroom Communication, Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis