Repairing Elementary School Science

Exploring Multiple Representations in Elementary School Science Education

This paper presents ourfindings after thefirst year and a halfof a multi-year deployment of an ImmersaDeskB to a local elementary school, investigating its effectiveness in enhancing science education. These findings deal with how VR can aid in the coordination of multiple representations, and how to integrate the technology into the existing school culture.

Teaching Science to Elementary School Deaf Children in Brazil

Discussions related to teaching deaf students in Brazil are mainly focused on language problems, and only a few address other issues, for example, teaching science for this group. During the observation of the recurrent successful results obtained by the experimental methodology used in science short courses for secondary school Deaf pupils, performed by the Deaf Project—UFRJ, the possibility o...

Art in science class vs science in art class: a Study in Elementary School

Elementary School Children

Quality of life (QOL) factors have become an area of emphasis for health care and particularly for optometry. The College of Optometrists in Vision Development designed a 30-item checklist (COVDQOL-30). This was later reduced to 19 items (COVD-QOL-19). The two instruments have been shown to have good testretest reliabilities and both have been demonstrated to have validity. The reliability of b...

Standard 4—Science Elementary

This is evident, for example, when students: ▲ investigate the interactions of liquids and powders that result in chemical reactions (e.g., vinegar and baking soda) compared to interactions that do not (e.g., water and sugar). ▲ in order to demonstrate the transformation of chemical to electrical energy, construct electrical cells from objects, such as lemons or potatoes, using pennies and alum...