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Direct linkNarguizian, Paul – Science Teacher, 2004
As the common thread in biology, the topic of evolution and its related historical development can help students make sense of diverse biological concepts. The discussion of evolution provides educators with something else--a significant opportunity to teach important lessons involving the nature of science (NOS). This article addresses strategies…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Teachers, Evolution, Biology
Adamson, Scott L.; Banks, Debra; Burtch, Mark; Cox, Frank, III; Judson, Eugene; Turley, Jeffery B.; Benford, Russell; Lawson, Anton E. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2003
The Arizona Collaborative for Excellence in the Preparation of Teachers (ACEPT) Program is one of several reform efforts supported by the National Science Foundation. The primary ACEPT reform mechanism has been month-long summer workshops in which university and community college science and mathematics faculty learn about instructional reforms…
Descriptors: Workshops, Teaching Methods, Scientific Principles, Biology
Irez, Serhat – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2007
Teacher beliefs have become important constructs in educational research with the recognition that beliefs are the best indicators of teachers' planning, decision-making and subsequent classroom behaviour. In this movement many probes and strategies have been employed by researchers for effective data collection and analysis. This paper discusses…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Foreign Countries, Educational Research
Download full textGustafson, Brenda; MacDonald, Dougal; d'Entremont, Yvette – Alberta Education, 2007
This report presents a literature review of elementary science and design technology education research. The review is intended to provide direction to the elementary science working groups charged with the responsibility to revise the "Alberta Elementary Science Program" (1996) by reflecting current ideas reported in research…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Science Programs, Scientific Principles, Problem Solving
Backhus, DeWayne A.; Thompson, Kenneth Wayne – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2006
The nature of science (NOS) has a prominent role among the national science education content standards at all grade levels, K-12. Results from a national survey of collegiate science educators indicate the perception that the greatest contributors to preservice teachers' understanding of the nature of science were science methods courses,…
Descriptors: Science Education, Teacher Educators, Science Teachers, Science Instruction
Hanke, Craig J.; Bauer-Dantoin, Angela C. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2006
Classroom discussion of scientific articles can be an effective means of teaching scientific principles and methodology to both undergraduate and graduate science students. The availability of classic papers from the American Physiological Society Legacy Project has made it possible to access articles dating back to the early portions of the 20th…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Discovery Learning, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Science Education
Sher, Beverly – 1992
Intended to aid teachers of high ability elementary students in understanding the key components and generalizations that are critical to specific science concepts, this document contains eight papers addressing broad concepts common to many branches of science and teaching principles. A paper on the nature of the scientific process precedes six…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Concept Formation, Educational Principles, Elementary Education
Barton, Angela Calabrese – 1998
This volume presents a case for science education from a feminist perspective. Feminist science teaching is concerned with questions that emerge from the intersections of the pedagogical, the disciplinary, and the personal with the political, social, and historical dimensions of each of these. It is also concerned with how knowledge of the ways in…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Educational Philosophy, Elitism, Epistemology
Schatzberg, Walter, Ed.; And Others – 1987
This annotated bibliography is offered as a resource tool for literary scholars, historians of science, and historians of ideas. Annually since 1939, a bibliography of scholarship on the relations of literature and science has been compiled by the Modern Language Association. The present bibliography incorporates the work of the annual…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, College Science, Eighteenth Century Literature, Literature
Brown, Peggy, Ed. – Forum for Liberal Education, 1982
Selected college programs designed to increase students' science literacy are described, and perspectives on science education are addressed in an article by E. James Rutherford, "Sputnik, Halley's Comet, and Science Education." The article suggests that leadership and consensus are needed at the national level to improve science…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Botany, College Programs, Core Curriculum
MILLER, DONALD R. – 1967
OPERATION PEP REPRESENTS A DESIGNFUL ATTEMPT ON THE PART OF THE EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY IN CALIFORNIA TO PLAN, DESIGN, AND IMPLEMENT A TRAINING PROGRAM FOR THE EDUCATIONAL PLANNERS AND MANAGERS. THE BASIC CONTENT OF INSTRUCTION WILL BE DERIVED THROUGH THE ADAPTIVE TRANSLATION OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY TO THE CONTEXT OF…
Descriptors: Administrators, Charts, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making
Knorr, Amy Jean – 1967
Units for teacher use in foods and nutrition classes were developed by elementary and secondary teachers, teacher educators, and state supervisors, tested by classroom teachers, refined, and edited. The units, each printed on different colored paper, are (1) Food and Nutrition-Beginning Levels, (2) Science and Food-Intermediate Level, (3) Food for…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Conceptual Schemes, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Guides
Thompson, Malcolm H.; Rameau, Jonathan D. – 1997
This program guide is meant to help teachers assist their students in viewing the six-part public television series, "Stephen Hawking's Universe." The guide features program summaries that give background information and brief synopses of the programs; previewing activities that familiarize students with the subject; vocabulary that…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Earth Science, Educational Television, Higher Education
National Aquarium in Baltimore, MD. Dept. of Education. – 1997
"Living in Water" is a classroom-based, scientific study of water, aquatic environments, and the plants and animals that live in water. The lessons in this curriculum integrate basic physical, biological, and earth sciences, and mathematics. The integration of language arts is also considered essential to its success. These lessons do not require…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Biology, Classification, Earth Science
Brown, Bryan A. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2004
This study examined how, in some instances, participation in the cultural practices of high school science classrooms created intrapersonal conflict for ethnic minority students. Discourse analysis of videotaped science classroom activities, lectures, and laboratories was the primary methodology employed for analyzing students' discursive identity…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Maintenance, Learning Activities, Discourse Analysis
