Managing Successful Science Fair Projects: A Step-by-Step Approach by Patricia Hachten Wee - Here's all the material you need to keep learners on-task through the whole science project process. Organize your science fair and save your sanity! Guides your learners through a 14-step process of...
The paper investigates the linguistic challenges faced by Setswana-speaking Grade 7 learners when writing Science examinations in English. In South African schools, non-mother tongue speakers of English learners are only introduced to English as a language of learning and teaching in Grade...
The strategies that were most commonly used related to “engineering effective classroom discussions” that elicited evidence of student understanding and “activating students” as autonomous learners and peer instructors. The teachers’ rationales for using the selected resources were mainly connected to ...
Fillwater balloonswith different solutions (oil, salt water, fresh water, etc.) and place the balloons in a large bucket of water to see if they sink or float. This is a cool project to do with your 3rd grade science class on the playground on a sunny day. Learn more:Balloon Density ...
Active learning approaches that encourage learners to explore a system (even if this means making mistakes or taking longer to reach a solution) have been shown to be superior to learning based on following instructions and avoiding making mistakes, especially in novel situations (Bell & Kozlowski,...
At the beginning of a study session, successful learners have specific purposes or goals, structure reading material and content effectively, purposefully extract significant or useful information, and self-assess knowledge gained (Tei & Stewart, 1985). To address these issues, Dunlosky et al. (...
Grade 12 learners, Steffan Thielen and Rohan van Loggerenburg from Paul Roos Gymnasium in Stellenbosch, in the Western Cape, will showcase their research project, “Optimisation of Artificial Neural Network training”. The learners focussed...
Visualizations can also help learners conceive events and processes that are difficult to grasp because they span temporal and spatial scales far larger or smaller than those that we can directly perceive. Thus, visual representations could make important contributions to fostering understanding of ...
The textual world of science presented for younger readers has changed dramatically over the last number of years. This transformation has been noted not only in textbooks designed to instruct (e.g., Walpole, 1999) but also in trade books written to info
One of the main arguments against the pedagogical value of block formats, frequently mentioned in the context of school, is the attention span of learners. During a block course, less learning content may be retained because attention diminishes [163,164]. Another counter-argument is that the ...