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Shaoru Annie Zeng; Sun Yee Yip; Grace Xuecong Ji; Yaqing Hou; Hongzhi Zhang; Philip Wing Keung Chan; Zane Diamond; Geraldine Burke – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2024
This study analyses how community resources are integrated into four areas of the Australian Curriculum: Languages (Chinese), The Arts (Visual Arts), Sciences, and Humanities and Social Sciences (Economics and Business). It examines four case studies to compare the use of rural resources and local partnerships in achieving educational goals and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Resources, Public Libraries, Museums
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Suwako Uehara; Hibiya Haraki; Stuart McLean – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2022
Japanese graduate school students in the field of science and engineering need to read academic research in their second language (L2), and such tasks can be challenging. Studies showed a strong (0.78) correlation between vocabulary size and reading comprehension (McLean et al., 2020), and providing high-frequency word lists could enhance…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Reading Materials, Teacher Attitudes, Intellectual Disciplines
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Williams, Melanie; Tang, Kok-Sing – Asia-Pacific Science Education, 2021
The visual mode provides emergent bi/multilinguals an essential resource to construct scientific explanations. Yet, while a metalanguage is used to describe the written mode of scientific language such as, claim, evidence, reason; there is little research that makes students aware of the metalanguage of a visual mode. We propose an introduction to…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Metalinguistics, Science Education
Geeta Gambhir; Juliet Kyoshabire Kotonya – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2023
Right to Play's Plug-in-Play (PIP) project in Rwanda aims to enhance Science and Elementary Technology (SET) education through playful and interactive methods. This study, conducted by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) and Three Stones International (TSI), explores the implementation of learning through play with technology…
Descriptors: Science Education, Technology Education, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students
Kuehl, Matt; And Others – 1995
This lesson plan for the second and third grades uses information on dinosaurs, their adaptations and survival, to provide science education for limited-English-proficient (LEP) students in San Diego, California. The primary text is "Los Dinosaurios Gigantes," a core literature book used in the school district. Lessons are based on the whole…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Cooperative Learning, Dinosaurs, Educational Objectives
Van Heukelem, Tom; Mercado, Maria de Jesus – 1995
This lesson plan for the second grade uses information on the solar system to provide science education for limited-English-proficient (LEP) students in San Diego, California. The lesson has been developed to be taught in a bilingual class, a Spanish-language immersion class, or a two-way bilingual class. Lessons are arranged so that native…
Descriptors: Bilingual Instructional Materials, Community Involvement, Educational Objectives, English (Second Language)