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Janina Vanhöfen; Christoph Randler; Freya Neunhoeffer; Talia Härtel; Cheyenne Engeser; Christian Fischer – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
Field trips provide real-world learning opportunities in biology education as they promote knowledge about nature among other things. As biodiversity is declining knowledge of species is important for understanding and appreciating the natural world and its implications. Many field guides are digitally available, but differences from traditional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Field Trips, Ornithology
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Guerrero, Gonzalo R.; Reiss, Michael J. – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
This article examines an outdoor science activity based on Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning of Science (ITLS) undertaken with a collaborative research methodology as a Research-Practice Partnership (RPP). The activity was implemented in a national reserve in Chile as part of continuing professional development and co-designed by in-service…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Science Activities, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Research
Nilsen, Katy; Iveland, Ashley; Britton, Ted; Tyler, Burr; Arnett, Elizabeth – WestEd, 2019
This report describes how effective environmental literacy can be for catalyzing Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) teaching, and how the California K-8 NGSS Early Implementers Initiative has provided professional learning about environmental literacy to prompt and support this synergy. The report also outlines how the California Science…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Academic Standards, Science Education, Science Curriculum
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Pande, Prajakt; Thit, Amalie; Sørensen, Anja Elaine; Mojsoska, Biljana; Moeller, Morten E.; Jepsen, Per Meyer – Research in Learning Technology, 2021
Our main goal was to investigate if and how using multiple immersive virtual reality (iVR) simulations and their video playback, in a science course, affects student learning over time. We conducted a longitudinal study, in ecological settings, at an undergraduate field-course on three topics in environmental biology. Twenty-eight undergraduates…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Science Instruction, Biology, Environmental Education
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Jolley, Alison; Hampton, Samuel J.; Brogt, Erik; Kennedy, Ben M.; Fraser, Lyndon; Knox, Angus – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2019
This study compares the field experience and development of sense of place (in this case, human attributed meanings and attachments to the field area) in geoscience students on three separate course sections of a six-day introductory geological mapping field trip. Students stayed in a small farm station within their 4 km[superscript 2] field area,…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Science Instruction, Geology, Maps
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Türkmen, Hakan – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2015
Pre-service teachers' views of science and scientists have been widely studied. The purpose of this study is to identify whether there is problem of image of scientists and determine where they receive about scientist image. Three hundred thirty five (105 from Turkey, 162 from Europe, 68 from US) elementary pre-service teachers participated in…
Descriptors: Scientists, Stereotypes, Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers
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Xie, Yichun; Henry, Andy; Bydlowski, David; Musial, Joseph – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2014
A majority of secondary science teachers are found to include the topic of climate change in their courses. However, teachers informally and sporadically discuss climate change and students rarely understand the underlying scientific concepts. The project team developed an innovative pedagogical approach, in which teachers and students learn…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Environmental Education, Climate, Hands on Science
Lucas, Keith B. – 1999
This paper reports on a visit to an interactive science center by a class of 10-year-old children planned and implemented by a teacher identified as exemplary by the science center staff. The visit was planned to be an integral part of the science program for the term, extending the range and type of science activities which were a feature of the…
Descriptors: Field Trips, Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Backhus, DeWayne – 1993
A survey of all Kansas physical sciences (chemistry, general science, physical science, and physics) teachers (36 percent return rate) in the Spring of 1991 provided elements of a profile of physical sciences teachers and teaching. Findings are presented concerning teaching assignments, course enrollments, school demographics, teacher background…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Environmental Education, Field Trips, Laboratory Safety
Naturescope, 1987
Describes some of the characteristics of amphibians. Contains teaching activities ranging from a "frog sing-along" to lessons on amphibian adaptations, and night hikes to identify frog calls. Includes reproducible handouts to be used with the activities, and a quiz. (TW)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Animals, Ecology, Elementary Education
Lisowski, Marylin – 1987
Designed to examine the nature of ideas that students hold about specific scientific concepts and to investigate modes of instruction that would effectively help them gain an accurate understanding of their world, this study focused on students' conceptions of ecological concepts and the influence of field instruction strategies on students'…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Ecology, Experiential Learning, Field Instruction