Thursday, March 5
1:30 PM-2:30 PM
UTC
Meeting Room 12

Transforming Middle School Science Education Through Action Science

Full Paper ID: 24570
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    William Robertson
    University of Texas at El Paso

Abstract: Dr. Skateboard’s Action Science is a curriculum supplement for middle school students that is designed to address content and process objectives in physical science for both the National Science Standards and Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). The video instruction and twenty classroom activities provide the teacher with a series of instructional tools and content information that can be used to explore and explain the concepts found in the areas of forces, motion, Newton’s Laws of Motion, and simple machines. Action Science can be defined as the use of familiar objects, circumstances and situations within the lives of students in order to explain specific concepts in science built around student interests, such as skateboarding and bicycle motocross (BMX).

Presider: Malinda Butler, Alcorn State University

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