This study investigates how ninth-grade students in Swedish compulsory school describe and explain a technological system: the wastewater system. The analysis focuses on students' verbal explanations while illustrating their self-drawn models of the system. Eleven students (aged 15-16) participated through semi-structured individual interviews.…

As the food system, from production to consumption, has increasingly become complex, the need for food literacy among American school-aged children has also increased. Teaching and learning interventions using inquiry-based learning (IBL) can be used to improve food literacy. The purpose of this study was to determine how an IBL approach paired…