In recent years, playful methods of learning have almost disappeared from school
classrooms, and active, creative, extended playtimes during recess, at home, and in …

Research in science education over the last three decades has made substantial progress
in identifying and characterizing the cognitive processes that are important to success in …

An Integrated Play-Based Curriculum for Young Children, Second Edition explores how to
integrate play across the curriculum, helping teachers develop their early childhood …

This chapter focuses on teaching science through play in the early years. The chapter starts
with definitions of play from different theoretical perspectives and describes major modern …

The arts animate learning because they are inherently experiential and because of their
potential to develop creative and critical thinking skills in students. These same skills are …

This paper aimed to explore how preschool teachers' experience their strengthened
teaching mission, specifically when working with scientific exploration. The study was based …

In this research the effects of educational digital games and in-class educational games on
scientific process skills of 6 years old children were investigated. The research was carried …

Bu araştırmanın amacı eğitsel dijital oyunların ve sınıf içi eğitsel oyunlar ile gerçekleştirilen
fen öğretiminin okul öncesi öğrencilerinin bilişsel gelişim düzeylerine etkisini incelemektir …

Science education is paramount as humanity works to mitigate the major socio-economic,
technological, and environmental impact of the Anthropocene and build a sustainable future …

Much research in science education has focused on the conflicts that exist between
individuals' ways of knowing the world and science. We have been left without an image of …