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Download full textLuvia R. Nastiti; Widha Sunarno; Sukarmin Sukarmin; Sulistyo Saputro; Luqman Baehaqi – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2024
The intricacy of real-world challenges in project-based geoscience learning is complex to assess with a STEM approach; hence, research into an effective model is necessary to address current issues in education. Understanding the role of STEM in resolving challenging real-world issues requires integrating STEM literacy that is appropriate for…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Multiple Literacies, Active Learning, Student Projects
Direct linkSarah Clement; Katie Spellman; Emily Eidam; Theodore Langhorst; Christopher Arp; Julianne Davis; Tamlin Pavelsky; Allen Bondurant – Connected Science Learning, 2024
Through the Sediment, Ice, & Learning on the Tanana (SILT) project, a team of university scientists engaged two middle school student groups in testing innovative environmental research technologies to measure sediment flowing underneath river ice. The culturally responsive, place-based pilot program tests these technologies as a strategy to…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, STEM Education, Earth Science, Hands on Science
Wesley A. Stroud – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2025
This paper highlights the design process and implementation for an "all majors" undergraduate course that allows students a chance to reconnect with the natural world. During this course students explore a wide range of biological and physical science based topics that seek to highlight human intervention and our impacts on the planet.…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Education, Honors Curriculum, Majors (Students)
Cummins, Sunday; Newman, Patricia – Science and Children, 2022
In a series of 12 project-based learning lessons, a group of seven fifth-grade students who live 200 miles from the coast explored their personal connections to the ocean. After completing a unit on the role of water in Earth's surface processes, the students investigated ocean acidification and how this pervasive ocean problem impacts their local…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Oceanography, Sustainability
Kartini, Firdha Sarah; Widodo, Ari; Winarno, Nanang; Astuti, Lia – Journal of Science Learning, 2021
Located in the Pacific Ring of Fire, Indonesia is endangered by natural disasters. Through the changing of learning activity in a proper way by the application of STEM Project-Based Learning, future generations are expected to develop the knowledge and thinking skill to solve the problem. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate implementing…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Skill Development, STEM Education, Active Learning
Nathan A. Quarderer; Leah Wasser; Anne U. Gold; Patricia Montaño; Lauren Herwehe; Katherine Halama; Emily Biggane; Jessica Logan; David Parr; Sylvia Brady; James Sanovia; Charles Jason Tinant; Elisha Yellow Thunder; Justina White Eyes; LaShell Poor Bear/Bagola; Madison Phelps; Trey Orion Phelps; Brett Alberts; Michela Johnson; Nathan Korinek; William Travis; Naomi Jacquez; Kaiea Rohlehr; Emily Ward; Elsa Culler; R. Chelsea Nagy; Jennifer Balch – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2025
Today's data-driven world requires earth and environmental scientists to have skills at the intersection of domain and data science. These skills are imperative to harness information contained in a growing volume of complex data to solve the world's most pressing environmental challenges. Despite the importance of these skills, Earth and…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Earth Science, Environmental Education, Science Education
Himes, Marie; Spires, Hiller; Krupa, Erin; Good, Cameron – Science Teacher, 2020
Although the existence of and access to clean water are essential for sustaining life on Earth, multiple studies have demonstrated students' nascent understanding of basic water principles. Students have misconceptions related to the water cycle (Ben-zvi-Assarf and Orion 2005), groundwater (Dickerson and Dawkins 2004; Covitt et al. 2009), and the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Interdisciplinary Approach, Inquiry
Teece, Bronwyn L.; Metternicht, Graciela; Gnassi, Antonio; Vuolo, Francesco; Belfiore, Oscar Rosario – Geographical Education, 2021
Educational policy and management emphasise the role of science (e.g., earth science, geography) as a fundamental aspect of societal advance, but student enrolments at universities in these disciplines remain low. This commentary explores ways to foster more collaboration between university academics and high school teachers to implement…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Agricultural Education, Sustainability
Huysken, Kristin; Olivey, Harold; McElmurry, Kevin; Gao, Ming; Avis, Peter – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
Collaborative, project-based learning models have been shown to benefit student learning and engagement in the STEM disciplines. This case study evaluates the use of highly collaborative project- and problem-based learning models in introductory courses in the geosciences and biology. In the geosciences, we developed project-based modules with a…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Active Learning, Student Projects, Introductory Courses
McLaughlin, Jessica A.; Lombardi, Doug; Davatzes, Alexandra; Shipley, Thomas F.; Holzer, Margaret A.; Hopkins, Jenelle D.; Jaeger, Allison J. – Science Teacher, 2018
Understanding the spatial nature of the world is necessary in everyday life. Not only do people move about in 3D space, but spatial thinking is also important in many science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. This may be especially true in the geosciences, where learners often encounter unique spatial reasoning…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, STEM Education, Earth Science, Visualization
Lyon, Eva; Freeman, Rebecca L.; Bathon, Justin; Fryar, Alan; McGlue, Michael; Erhardt, Andrea M.; Rosen, Ashley; Sampson, Shannon; Nelson, Andrew; Parsons, Joshua – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2020
A university geology department partnered with a STEM-focused high school to introduce project-based learning-centered geoscience content at the ninth-grade level. We hypothesized that these students, already interested in science, would be a natural recruitment pool into geoscience. Because they are enrolled by lottery, their demographics match…
Descriptors: Geology, College School Cooperation, High Schools, STEM Education
Styers, Diane M. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2018
The abundance of freely available, scientific big data sets can facilitate discovery-based authentic science projects saving time, money, and effort. This is especially true of remotely sensed data, as there is global coverage of Earth's surface spanning several decades that can be used for a multitude of applications. In this article, I present…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Undergraduate Students, College Science, Active Learning
Stokes, Alison; Harmer, Nichola – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2018
Active, student-centered pedagogies such as project-based learning (PjBL) can offer significant potential for engaging undergraduates with complex sustainability issues. Driven by institution-wide curriculum changes and informed by educational theories and evidence from previous studies, a trial PjBL activity was designed and delivered on three…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Undergraduate Students, Geography Instruction
Van Loon, Anne F. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2019
Hydrology teaching deals with processes happening outside the classroom, which calls for active-learning methods to complement lectures. In a geography undergraduate course, new teaching methods and assessment were designed, in which students investigated a river of their choice by completing homework tasks and presenting their results on a…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Earth Science, Water, Lecture Method
Magruder, Robin; Rosenauer, Julia – Science and Children, 2016
This article describes a second grade science enrichment unit with a focus on human impact, both positive and negative, on the living and nonliving components of the local watershed. Investigating the local watershed gave the unit a personal and pragmatic connection to students' lives because they depend on the local watershed for what they need…
Descriptors: Science Education, Enrichment Activities, Grade 2, Units of Study
