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Integrating Recent Scientific Concepts Into the Nine-Grade Science Curriculum
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Developing skills to explain scientific concepts during initial teacher education: the role of peer assessment
… of explanations and in their skill of explaining scientific concepts. Teachers' thoughts were obtained through a peer assessment questionnaire, feedback sessions, focus groups and interviews. The quality of their explanations was measured at pre, post and follow-up in their eventual first job via …
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Using semiotic resources to teach and assess scientific concepts in a bilingual Namibian primary school: A socio-cultural discourse analysis
… constrain learners' opportunities to construct scientific meaning. I combined various theoretical resources from a sociocultural approach to language as social practice, Bakhtinian heteroglossia and dialogism, neo-Vygotskian ideas of what constitutes the learning of scientific concepts, together …
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The relevance of non-legal technical and scientific concepts in the interpretation and application of the law of the sea
… context. Provisions of LOSC, where technical and scientific considerations are crucial, will be selected for consideration. These include those involving geodetic, geographical, geological, survey, navigational, organisational, and social and resource factors. The effect of these factors on LOSC …
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A neo-Vygotskian comparative analysis of the availability of simple scientific concepts in science in the English National Curriculum Year 1 and the South African National Curriculum and Policy Statement Grade 1
… However, some research indicates that the scientific concepts made available to teachers and students in the Foundation Phase are lacking in depth and are, in fact, not full scientific concepts (Morris, Hardman& Jacklin, 2016). In a bid to establish to what extent scientific concepts are …
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The relevance of non-legal technical and scientific concepts in the interpretation and application of the law of the sea : an analysis of the United Nations convention on the law of the sea
… context. Provisions of LOSC, where technical and scientific considerations are crucial, will be selected for consideration. These include those involving geodetic, geographical, geological, survey, navigational, organisational, and social and resource factors.
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The representation of geometric concepts in Grade 6 Mathematics textbooks: a socio-cultural analysis
… insight into the representation of geometric concepts in grade six mathematics textbooks. According to Vygotsky, higher order mental functioning is developed when scientific and everyday concepts are dialecfoally linked. The textbook as a mediating artefact has an important role to play in the …
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Stories in the elementary science classroom
… was given a lesson with a story to explain the scientific concept taught. The control class was given the same lesson without the story. Each student was administered a post-test after the lesson and a second post-test two weeks later. The findings suggest that using a story to explain …
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School science for six year olds: a neo-vygotskian approach to curriculum analysis
… described in relation to the notion of a simple scientific concept, an idea that was derived from a neo-Vygotskian conceptualisation of knowledge. A simple scientific concept is consistent with scientific criteria and functions as an entry level concept in relation to scientific knowledge. …
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Code-switching strategies in science lessons in Kenyan primary schools : an analysis of their contribution to the meaning making process
… use code-switching to help pupils to understand scientific concepts. The study takes place in a teaching and learning environment where English is the 'official' language of teaching beyond year three but where it is accepted by the education ministry that the English proficiency of most of the …
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Five new demonstrations in high school physics
… up clearly defined understandings of particular scientific concepts, principles and applications. Although the five new demonstrations presented are not expected to cover a full course in physics, they, as a unit, can be used as a model or suggestion as to how the demonstration method can be used …
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Three dimensional terrain editing in StarLogo TNG
… high school students understand mathematical and scientific concepts. However, there is a desire to use the program to help facilitate game creation but the tools do not exist. This thesis evaluates and discusses the design of some of the tools necessary in order to create richer 3-D environments …
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The effects of computer animation and cognitive style on the understanding and retention of scientific explanation
… of the problem-solving and retention of scientific concepts in computer based modules across learners possessing different cognitive styles. In this study, 121 undergraduate and graduate students were classified as field-independent, field-neutral, or field-dependent as a result of their …
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Implicit Learning in Science: Activating and Suppressing Scientific Intuitions to Enhance Conceptual Change
… implicit learning plays a role in learning about scientific phenomena, and subsequently, in conceptual change. Decades of research in learning science demonstrate that a primary challenge of science education is overcoming prior, naïve knowledge of natural phenomena in order to gain scientific …
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Med kroppen som illustration: Hur förskolebarn prat-skapar naturvetenskap med hjälp av multimodala och kroppsförankrade förklaringar
… are made or the body as such are used to explain scientific concepts and phenomena in preschool science education, and (b) how do the children handle, explore, discuss and talk science when approaching multimodally illustrated scientific contents in the studied activities. Four studies were …
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The Effects Of Science Inquiry In A Fourth Grade Classroom
… grade students' ability to communicate about scientific concepts learned, their perceptions about science and scientists, and my role as a teacher. The study took place in an elementary school setting for twenty weeks. Fourteen fourth grade students participated. Qualitative and quantitative …
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A cultural-historical analysis of Grade 9 History curriculum and its pedagogical resources for learners' conceptual development
… development in learners. The development of concepts requires learners' mediation in the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) where consideration and subsequent linkage of three knowledge forms namely: scientific concepts, everyday concepts and procedural knowledge is necessary. In light of …
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A molecular dynamics visualisation framework
In education, it is often difficult to explain scientific concepts without visualising them using some medium. An extensible and dynamic visualisation tool that provides a real-time simulation of such phenomenon would be a more suitable approach to teaching these concepts. This dissertation …
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Physics, construction, experience : an architecture environment for informal science education
… of natural phenomena. Grounded primarily on scientific concepts related physics, the mission of this particular science center relies substantially on the experimentation, participation, and critical inquiry of citizens to construct their own knowledge. It is located in Seattle on a prominent …
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Custom and interactive environments in StarLogo Nova for computational modeling
… knowledge and gain a greater understanding of scientific concepts. However, there are many computational models that are difficult to implement in StarLogo Nova or cannot be implemented. This can be partly attributed to the fact that agents are the only programmable and customizable entity in …
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