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Scientific Reasoning Skills Predict Topic-Specific Knowledge after Participation in a Citizen Science Project on Urban Wildlife Ecology
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Bruckermann, Till; Greving, Hannah; Schumann, Anke; Stillfried, Milena; Börner, Konstantin; Kimmig, Sophia E.; Hagen, Robert; Brandt, Miriam; Harms, Ute – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
In citizen science (CS) projects, citizens who are not professional scientists participate in scientific research. Besides serving research purposes, CS projects provide participants opportunities for inquiry-based learning to promote their topic-specific knowledge and scientific reasoning skills. Previous research suggests that participants need…
Descriptors: Science Process Skills, Citizen Participation, Scientific Research, Science Projects
To Know about Science Is to Love It? Unraveling Cause-Effect Relationships between Knowledge and Attitudes toward Science in Citizen Science on Urban Wildlife Ecology
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Bruckermann, Till; Greving, Hannah; Schumann, Anke; Stillfried, Milena; Börner, Konstantin; Kimmig, Sophia E.; Hagen, Robert; Brandt, Miriam; Harms, Ute – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2021
Nowadays, citizens collaborate increasingly with scientists in citizen science (CS) projects on environmental issues. CS projects often have educational goals and aim to increase citizens' knowledge with the ultimate goal of fostering positive attitudes toward science. To date, little is known about the extent to which CS projects strengthen the…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Scientific Literacy, Scientific Attitudes, Positive Attitudes
Preschoolers Observing the Urban Environment of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Tecsi, Dana-Simina; Cassianu, Raluca-Claudia – Romanian Review of Geographical Education, 2019
The present work presents an experimental research we realised in the 2016-2017 school year at "Universul copiilor" [Children's Universe] Kindergarten with Extended Programme, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The following hypothesis was tested: If the preschoolers are directly involved in learning situations in which they will study the urban…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Observation
Seeing the Trees: What Urban Middle School Students Notice about the Street Trees That Surround Them
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Wyner, Yael; Doherty, Jennifer H. – Journal of Biological Education, 2021
Even highly urban environments are settings for outdoor learning of local biodiversity, for they contain easily accessible street tree diversity that students walk pass daily. This study uses pre/post assessments and a tree observation curriculum grounded in scientific observation practice to understand the everyday and scientific tree observation…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Early Adolescents, Urban Environment, Public Schools
Combining Formal Education and Citizen Science: A Case Study on Students' Perceptions of Learning and Interest in an Urban Rat Project
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Aivelo, Tuomas; Huovelin, Suvi – Environmental Education Research, 2020
Citizen science is a valuable tool in environmental and formal education in creating scientific knowledge for the researchers and facilitating learning and fostering a positive relationship toward the environment and study species. We present a case study on the Helsinki Urban Rat Project in which students surveyed rat occurrence in their own near…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Student Attitudes, Animals, Foreign Countries
Exploring the Role of the City as a Learning Environment for Heritage Education
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Simsek, Gökçe; Acar, Esin; Atalan Çayirezmez, Nurdan; Elitok Kesici, Ayse – Online Submission, 2013
The paper is based on the results and data gathered from a heritage education project offered by Adnan Menderes University for sixth and eighth grade students (164 children aged 12-14) in the primary schools (25) in Aydin. The programme was applied to 164 children over five periods of eight days each, and data were gathered over the summer of…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Municipalities, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries