Volume 20, Issue 5

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October 2011

Special Issue on Science Education in Preschools and Primary Schools: Classrooms, Teachers, and Children

Issue Editor:

Haim Eshach

20 articles in this issue

Science for Young Children: A New Frontier for Science Education
Haim Eshach
OriginalPaper 26 June 2011 Pages: 435 - 443
Science and Technology Education in the STES Context in Primary Schools: What Should It Take?
Uri Zoller
OriginalPaper 13 May 2011 Pages: 444 - 453
Life in the Hive: Supporting Inquiry into Complexity Within the Zone of Proximal Development
Joshua A. Danish
Kylie Peppler
DiAnna Washington
OriginalPaper 21 May 2011 Pages: 454 - 467
“What’s So Terrible About Swallowing an Apple Seed?” Problem-Based Learning in Kindergarten
Meilan Zhang
Joyce Parker
Susan Passalacqua
OriginalPaper 10 May 2011 Pages: 468 - 481
Facilitating Preschoolers’ Scientific Knowledge Construction via Computer Games Regarding Light and Shadow: The Effect of the Prediction-Observation-Explanation (POE) Strategy
Chung-Yuan Hsu
Chin-Chung Tsai
Jyh-Chong Liang
OriginalPaper 02 April 2011 Pages: 482 - 493
Authentic Science Research in Elementary School After-School Science Clubs
Allan Feldman
Kelly Pirog
OriginalPaper 26 April 2011 Pages: 494 - 507
Atom Surprise: Using Theatre in Primary Science Education
Ran Peleg
Ayelet Baram-Tsabari
OriginalPaper 13 April 2011 Pages: 508 - 524
A Case Study of the Use of Internet Photobook Technology to Enhance Early Childhood “Scientist” Identity
Phyllis Katz
OriginalPaper 24 April 2011 Pages: 525 - 536
The Importance of Teaching and Learning Nature of Science in the Early Childhood Years
Valarie L. Akerson
Gayle A. Buck
Ingrid S. Weiland
OriginalPaper 24 May 2011 Pages: 537 - 549
Scaffolding the “Scaffolding” Metaphor: From Inspiration to a Practical Tool for Kindergarten Teachers
Haim Eshach
Yair Dor-Ziderman
Yael Arbel
OriginalPaper 15 June 2011 Pages: 550 - 565
We Look More, Listen More, Notice More: Impact of Sustained Professional Development on Head Start Teachers’ Inquiry-Based and Culturally-Relevant Science Teaching Practices
Gillian H. Roehrig
Mia Dubosarsky
Barbara Murphy
OriginalPaper 25 March 2011 Pages: 566 - 578
The Influence of Education Major: How Diverse Preservice Teachers View Pseudoscience Topics
Susan Carol Losh
Brandon Nzekwe
OriginalPaper 19 April 2011 Pages: 579 - 591
Learning from Failure: A Case Study of Where an Extracurricular Science Program Went Wrong
Orit Ben Zvi Assaraf
OriginalPaper 26 June 2011 Pages: 592 - 607
Science Education in Primary Schools: Is an Animation Worth a Thousand Pictures?
Miri Barak
Yehudit J. Dori
OriginalPaper 30 June 2011 Pages: 608 - 620
The Influence of Different Representations on Solving Concentration Problems at Elementary School
Chia-Ju Liu
Ming-Hsun Shen
OriginalPaper 13 March 2011 Pages: 621 - 629
What Plants and Animals Do Early Childhood and Primary Students’ Name? Where Do They See Them?
Patricia Patrick
Sue Dale Tunnicliffe
OriginalPaper 09 April 2011 Pages: 630 - 642
Children Explain the Rainbow: Using Young Children’s Ideas to Guide Science Curricula
Christina Siry
Isabelle Kremer
OriginalPaper 14 July 2011 Pages: 643 - 655
Using Scaffolding Strategies to Promote Young Children’s Scientific Understandings of Floating and Sinking
Ching-Ting Hsin
Hsin-Kai Wu
OriginalPaper 10 May 2011 Pages: 656 - 666
Influence of Previous Knowledge, Language Skills and Domain-specific Interest on Observation Competency
Lucia Kohlhauf
Ulrike Rutke
Birgit Neuhaus
OriginalPaper 10 June 2011 Pages: 667 - 678
We’re Creative on a Friday Afternoon: Investigating Children’s Perceptions of their Experience of Design & Technology in Relation to Creativity
Clare Benson
Julie Lunt
OriginalPaper 26 April 2011 Pages: 679 - 687

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