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Professional Learning outside the Classroom: Expedition Iceland
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Jordan, Julie; Bull, Sue – Education in Science, 2012
A bunch of intrepid teachers spent a week in Iceland in a quest to learn more about the country's challenging landscape, by engaging in a unique and inspiring professional development opportunity to learn about innovative ways to teach science and mathematics outside of a classroom setting. A 2008 Ofsted report highlighted the benefits of learning…
Descriptors: Students, Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Science Instruction
Promoting Student-Led Science and Technology Projects in Elementary Teacher Education: Entry into Core Pedagogical Practices through Technological Design
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Bencze, John Lawrence – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2010
Future elementary school teachers often lack self-efficacy for teaching science and technology. They are particularly anxious about encouraging children to carry-out student-directed, open-ended scientific inquiry and/or technological design projects. Moreover, because this often also is the case with practising elementary school teachers, it is…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Constructivism (Learning), Practicums, Methods Courses
Exploratorium: Robots.
Brand, Judith, Ed. – Exploratorium, 2002
This issue of Exploratorium Magazine focuses on the topic robotics. It explains how to make a vibrating robotic bug and features articles on robots. Contents include: (1) "Where Robot Mice and Robot Men Run Round in Robot Towns" (Ray Bradbury); (2) "Robots at Work" (Jake Widman); (3) "Make a Vibrating Robotic Bug" (Modesto Tamez); (4) "The Robot…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Robotics, Science Activities, Science Instruction
LabNet: Toward A Community of Practice. Technology in Education Series.
Ruopp, Richard, Ed.; And Others – 1993
Many educators advocate the use of projects in the science classroom. This document describes an effort (LabNet) that has successfully implemented a program that allows students to learn science using projects. Chapter 1, "An Introduction to LabNet" (Richard Ruopp, Megham Pfister), provides an initial framework for understanding the…
Descriptors: High Schools, Physics, Process Education, Science Instruction
Instructional Techniques for Critical Thinking and Life-Long Learning in Science Courses.
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Adams, David L. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1993
Describes four instructional techniques used to deliver specific developmental objectives in both an introductory chemistry course and a general course in science and technology. The four techniques described are miniresearch projects, scenario-based research projects, short essay examination questions, and issues-directed research project. (PR)
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Science, Critical Thinking, Essay Tests
Can Research on Learning and Instruction Inform Standards for Science Education?
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Linn, Marcia C.; And Others – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 1994
Compares current science education reform efforts with those of the 1960s to enhance student learning. Discusses how an "alternative models" view of scientific explanation can contribute to reforms of course goals, social aspects of science learning, instructional practices, and roles for technology. Contains 50 references. (ZWH)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Science Course Improvement Projects