Motivating a Fifth and Sixth Grade Classroom Interest by Teaching Science Units at the Center of the Curriculum

The problem was to set up a classroom situation in which fifth and sixth grade students were able to use the study of magnetism, electricity, and electronics in such a way that interest and motivation toward regular curricular studies could be stimulated. The following devices were chosen to evaluate the experiment: (1) interest and motivational questionnaires, (2) a science completion test, (3) The Iowa Basic Skills Test, and (4) the behavior journal.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Education (MEd)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Year

1962

Author dc:creator

• Reich, Theodore R.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Emil E. Samuelson
• Charles W. Vlcek
• Charles W. Wright

• Education
• Science -- Study and teaching
• Elementary
• Curriculum and Instruction
• Educational Methods
• Science and Mathematics Education

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/302

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.cwu.edu:etd-1317