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Glaab, Sabine; Heyne, Thomas – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2020
A total of 268 primary school children (age 8.75 ± 0.65) spent one day at a wildlife park attending environmental education aiming at high cognitive achievement and motivation alongside maintained discipline. To accomplish this at an out-of-school learning setting, we compared our preferred 'guided learning at workstations' (G) combining the…
Descriptors: Wildlife, Outdoor Education, Environmental Education, Elementary School Students
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Strand-Cary, Mari; Klahr, David – Cognitive Development, 2008
We explore the immediate and longer term consequences of different types of instruction about a central topic in middle school science: the "Control of Variables Strategy" (CVS). CVS represents the procedural and conceptual basis for designing simple, unconfounded experiments, such that unambiguous causal inferences can be made. CVS…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Longitudinal Studies, Elementary School Science, Science Achievement