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Eileen G. Merritt; Andrea E. Weinberg; Candace Lapan; Sara E. Rimm-Kaufman – Grantee Submission, 2024
Energy concepts are taught in many schools, but children rarely have an opportunity to grapple with energy problems and work on their own solutions. This study explores the impacts of Connect Science, a service-learning (SL) program developed to enhance elementary students' energy literacy in the United States. Program impacts were explored within…
Descriptors: Science Education, Service Learning, Energy, Scientific Concepts
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Strait, Jean R. – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2008
What causes students to leave school? According to Azzam (2007), over 47% of students in the United States who drop out of school reported they did so because school was boring and irrelevant to their life situation. What can schools and teachers do to encourage students to stay in school? One possible solution may be to look at experiential…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Processes, Public Speaking, Skill Development
Jones, Brett D.; Stallings, D. T.; Malone, David – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2004
With the recent proliferation of college service-learning programs and tutoring programs, college students have more opportunities to serve as tutors in elementary schools than ever before. A number of reports have appeared in the research literature describing tutoring programs that could serve as models for tutoring initiatives. Based on this…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Program Effectiveness, Tutors, Elementary School Teachers