School Science and Mathematics articles from March 2001

School Science and Mathematics archives from March 2001

Curriculum and Instruction: Whose Life Is This Anyway?
March 1, 2001... Some of you may be old enough to remember the much celebrated movie starring Richard Dreyfus (Whose Life Is This Anyway?), from which we have derived the title for this editorial. We think it is a safe bet that most people reading this...

Using a Practical Context to Encourage Conceptual Change: An Instructional Sequence in Bicycle Science.
March 1, 2001... The grounding of science instruction in practical applications has been strongly emphasized in the science education literature. The notion of concept status change allows one to view the importance of practical applications from a learning...

The Measurement of Time: Children's Construction of Transitivity, Unit Iteration, and Conservation of Speed.
March 1, 2001... One hundred twenty children in kindergarten and grades 2, 4, and 6 were individually interviewed with five Piageatian tasks to determine the grade level at which most have constructed transitive reasoning, unit iteration, and the conservation...

Using Analogies to Improve Elementary School Students' Inferential Reasoning About Scientific Concepts.
March 1, 2001... Various scientific concepts were taught to students in the third through sixth grades. Some children were taught the concepts using instructional analogies. Each analogy explicitly compared the science concept to a more familiar topic. Other...

The Role of Teacher Stance When Infusing Inquiry Questioning Into Middle School Science Classrooms.
March 1, 2001... The purpose of this study was to describe how a teacher's stance of wonder, curiosity, and exploration during the use of hypothetical inquiry situations served as a way for the teacher to address her goals for students to be more vocal members...

Inclined Planes and Motion Detectors: A Study of Acceleration.
March 1, 2001... Summary Students work in cooperative groups, one team per ramp. They roll balls down inclined planes, collect data with the help of an electronic motion detector, and represent the data with a graphing calculator to explore such concepts...