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Modeling, Reading, and Talking, Oh My!

Using multiple modes to promote sensemaking and scientific literacy in the early elementary grades

Science and Children—July/August 2022 (Volume 59, Issue 6)

By Miranda S. Fitzgerald, Amber S. Bismack, Amelia Wenk Gotwals, Tanya S. Wright, and Erin K. Washburn

Modeling, Reading, and Talking, Oh My!

 

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Windows Into Thinking

Scaffolding scientific explanations helps overcome barriers to writing

Science and Children—July/August 2022 (Volume 59, Issue 6)

By Kenneth Fleming, Allison Esparza, Beverly Irby, Rafael Lara-Alecio, Fuhui Tong, and Cindy Guerrero

Windows Into Thinking

 

Teaching Through Trade Books

Energy: A Wild Ride

Science and Children—July/August 2022 (Volume 59, Issue 6)

By Christine Anne Royce

 

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What Do You Know About Soil?

Using Ideas Inventory Probes

Science and Children—July/August 2022 (Volume 59, Issue 6)

By Page Keeley

 

The Early Years

What If?

Supporting scientific literacy with young children through connections with our Earth

Science and Children—July/August 2022 (Volume 59, Issue 6)

By Alissa A. Lange

 

Early Childhood Resources Review

Media Literacy for Young Children

Science and Children—July/August 2022 (Volume 59, Issue 6)

By Laura Weilert

 

The Poetry of Science

Fostering Scientific Literacy with Poetry

Science and Children—July/August 2022 (Volume 59, Issue 6)

By Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong

 

Editor's Note

Fostering Scientific Literacy

Science and Children—July/August 2022 (Volume 59, Issue 6)

By Elizabeth Barrett-Zahn

 

Press Release

Middle School Teams Win 20th Annual eCYBERMISSION Competition

Teams Oh, Deer!, Plastic Patrol, OMg, and Busy Bee Tech were named National Winners, each student taking home the $10,000 U.S. EE Savings Bond prize.

 

Research & Teaching

Impact of a Co-Taught Physics Course on Preservice Science Teachers’ Views of Teaching and Learning of Physics

Journal of College Science Teaching—July/August 2022 (Volume 51, Issue 6)

By Kadir Demir, Brett Criswell, and William Stoll

This article focuses on the impact of a physics class on secondary science teacher candidates’ views of teaching and learning physics. The course was developed and taught by faculty from the Department of Astronomy and Physics and the College of Education and integrated physics content with a conceptual change pedagogical approach. Candidates’ views gathered in pre- and postcourse interviews were analyzed along a continuum from teacher-centered canonical to student-centered refinement, which represented a progression from not giving any attention to students’ ideas in thinking about what effective teaching and learning represent to recognizing the need to build scientific knowledge from students’ ideas. Candidates showed a shift from the beginning of the course to the end, with 12 of the 14 candidates expressing student-centered views in the postcourse interviews and 8 presenting views commensurate with the refinement level. We describe several factors that were identified as responsible for this shift and offer suggestions about how to replicate those factors across multiple contexts so others may design learning experiences to produce similar outcomes.

 

This article focuses on the impact of a physics class on secondary science teacher candidates’ views of teaching and learning physics. The course was developed and taught by faculty from the Department of Astronomy and Physics and the College of Education and integrated physics content with a conceptual change pedagogical approach.
This article focuses on the impact of a physics class on secondary science teacher candidates’ views of teaching and learning physics. The course was developed and taught by faculty from the Department of Astronomy and Physics and the College of Education and integrated physics content with a conceptual change pedagogical approach.
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