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Schnittka, Christine G. – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2023
At the end of 2022, there were 2439 coal-fired power plants operating around the world, and over 7000 active coal mines (Global Energy Monitor, 2022). Coal burning was the largest source of greenhouse gases that impact climate change, and coal mining caused extensive environmental damage (US Energy and Information Administration, 2022). Decisions…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Fuels, Environmental Education, Energy
Laura A. Schifter; Jonathan Klein, Contributor – Harvard Education Press, 2025
Laura A. Schifter and Jonathan Klein highlight the many ways in which K-12 schools and students have tremendous potential to advance solutions on environmental issues, and they provide frameworks for enacting change, in "Students, Schools, and Our Climate Moment." Schifter and Klein demonstrate how the effects of climate change intersect…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Climate, Environmental Education
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Yalcin, Fatma Aggul; Yalcin, Mehmet – Science Education International, 2020
The purpose of this study was to determine Turkish primary teacher candidates' conceptual understandings of gases. In this study, a survey approach was used. The sample consisted of 240 primary teacher candidates. As the data collection tool, a questionnaire of six questions consisting of three open-ended and three multiple choice was used. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers
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Boylan, Colin – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2008
As environmental changes become a significant societal issue, elementary science curricula need to develop students' understanding about the key concepts of energy and climate change. For teachers, developing quality learning experiences involves establishing what their students' prior understanding about energy and climate change are. A survey…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Energy, Climate, Concept Formation