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Valentine Ukachukwu Okwara – Educational Research: Theory and Practice, 2024
Understanding ecological concepts is crucial in tackling environmental issues like climate change, pollution, and habitat destruction. These concepts also serve as a teaching framework, encouraging learners to effect positive change. This research was conducted with grade 9 learners from three schools in Bloemfontein, South Africa, randomly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Environmental Education, Climate
Anna-Lena Neurohr; Nadine Pasch; Alexander Bergmann-Gering; Andrea Möller – Journal of Environmental Education, 2024
To promote pro-environmental behavior (PEB), it is crucial to understand the drivers behind it. Studies indicate that, in addition to environmental attitudes and nature activities, interest in nature drives people to engage in PEB. However, the relationship between interest in nature and PEB is still greatly understudied among adolescents even…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 5, Grade 6
Melton, Jeremy W.; Ali Saiful, Jepri; Pat Shein, Paichi – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
An increasingly important aim in education is to develop students capable of addressing complex, interdependent problems. This study integrates theories of situated learning, authentic science research, socioscientific issues, and interdisciplinary STEM education to construct a program for high school students. Drawn from Vygotsky and Dewey's…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, STEM Education, Organic Chemistry, Scientific Research
Zaman, Barbara; Lovšin Kozina, Francka – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2021
Today's world is facing a problem with the growth of textile products and in particular, textile waste, which already represents a serious environmental problem. From the point of view of ensuring sustainable handling of textile products, it is thus very important that individuals have the appropriate knowledge, attitudes and skills for…
Descriptors: Textiles Instruction, Multiple Literacies, Grade 9, Secondary School Students
Sousa, Ana; Rodrigues, Pedro; Maia-Lima, Cláudia; Pinto, Alexandre; Barbot, António – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2020
The excessive exposure to ultraviolet radiation, natural or artificial, is a public health concern. For this reason, it is important that, from an early age, children and teenagers gain awareness of this problem. By not being visible to the human eye, ultraviolet radiation is an abstract concept and difficult to understand, although its short-term…
Descriptors: Radiation, Grade 9, Foreign Countries, Skill Development
Jurgena, Inese; Cedere, Dagnija; Kevisa, Ingrida – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2018
The use of transdisciplinary approach to promote learners' interest in the acquisition of natural science at school provides new opportunities for a complex explanation of the phenomenon and improving the quality of the process of learning. The aim of the study is to explore the learners' cognitive interest, personal participation and the…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Student Interests, Science Interests, Sustainable Development
Munkebye, Eli; Scheie, Eldri; Gabrielsen, Anja; Jordet, Arne; Misund, Stig; Nergård, Tone; Øyehaug, Anne Bergljot – Environmental Education Research, 2020
Education for sustainable development (ESD) provides crucial opportunities for young people to be involved in complex sustainability issues. This study contributes to existing knowledge about primary school teachers' approaches to ESD across a range of subjects. Norwegian schools can join the Sustainable Backpack programme (SBP), which supports…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Elementary School Curriculum, Sustainable Development, Environmental Education
Rupnik, Denis; Avsec, Stanislav – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2020
Technological progress, globalization and demographic changes have brought about transformations that have increased economic and social inequalities. A structural transformation in education could support economic growth and sustainability and could also be associated with common actions in science, technology, engineering and mathematics,…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Interdisciplinary Approach, STEM Education, Technology Education
Plankis, Brian; Ramsey, John; Ociepka, Anne; Martin, Pamela – Science and Children, 2016
In practice, sustainable development is the use of natural resources in a manner that allows ecosystems to continue to function as natural ecosystems and biotic and abiotic interactions to maintain checks and balances are homeostatic. Historically, human activity has led to modification of nature that leads to (1) economic development, (2) biotic…
Descriptors: Ecology, Sustainable Development, Natural Resources, Sustainability
Duncan, Susan; Papers, Jerry; Franzen, Woody; Otto, Pat – Science Scope, 2006
Vertical connections, constructed using inquiry, give students the skills to reach new heights in both their academic and local communities. In this article, the authors present inquiry projects, developed by middle level teachers, to ensure that students use higher-level thinking skills to improve the community. Each project is connected to the…
Descriptors: Biodiversity, Investigations, Field Studies, Thinking Skills