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Direct linkDaibao Guo; Huijing Wen; April Silimperi; Sadi Harp – Reading Psychology, 2024
Using a verbal protocol, this study investigated how 38 second-grade students identify, describe, and interpret five types of commonly used visual graphics in science texts (i.e., cut-away diagrams, maps, captioned photographs, flow diagrams, and hybrids). Additionally, we explored the challenges students encountered when interpreting these…
Descriptors: Suburban Schools, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Elementary School Science
Download full textInaltekin, Tufan; Goksu, Volkan – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2019
The aim of this study is to analyze the types of visual representations in primary and secondary science textbooks in Turkey. The sample of the research constitutes six textbooks prepared by private publishers for primary and secondary science courses (3rd -8 th Grade) in Turkey in 2018-2019 academic year. Document analysis design, which is one of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Science Education, Textbooks
Peer reviewedDebes, John L. – Science Teacher, 1976
Discussed is the application of photography and photographs in the improvement of learning and intellectual development in the elementary classroom. (SL)
Descriptors: Educational Media, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Instruction
Holliday, William G. – 1979
Modern educational theory suggests that the learning of a visual science concept is best taught using a combination of pictorial and verbal instruction describing these characteristics and examples and best evaluated using words and visuals not used during instruction. Recent research suggests a four-step instructional-testing model usable by…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Theories, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
Peer reviewedDuckrow, E. L. – Science and Children, 1978
Describes a technique of making microscope images viewable by a small group and for making pictures of the images without a camera. (SL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Instruction, Microscopes
Peer reviewedDiebold, Thomas J.; Waldron, Manjula B. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1988
Sixty hearing-impaired students, aged 12-22, studied one of four instructional formats describing basic science concepts. Comprehension gains were measured using a pretest-posttest procedure. Formats which featured highly pictorial content and simplified English produced significantly higher mean gain scores than formats with less pictorial…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Elementary School Science, Hearing Impairments, Instructional Materials
