Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology
Little Researchers: Discover the World of Science
Course Goal
The course promotes inquiry-based learning and provides insights into scientific ways of thinking and working. Children learn to experiment, apply the research cycle, and present their results.
Course Content
The courseemphasizes inquiry-based learning and understandingscientific methods: How are scientific findings generated? How does knowledge change over time? Children developappropriate ideas of how science works ('Nature of Science') and a nuanced view of scientists and their work.
This course is aimed at particularly gifted and highly gifted third- and fourth-grade students with an interest in science, who are part of the Hector Children’s Academies program.
Schiefer, J., Stark, L., Gaspard, H., Wille, E., Trautwein, U., & Golle, J. (2021). Scaling up an extracurricular science intervention for elementary school students: It works, and girls benefit more from it than boys. Journal of Educational Psychology, 113(4), 784–807. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000630
