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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
Covitt, Beth A.; Parker, Joyce M.; Kohn, Craig; Lee, May; Lin, Qinyun; Anderson, Charles W. – Journal of Environmental Education, 2020
Carbon cycle pool-and-flux reasoning is a critical facet of climate literacy. This article begins with discussion of why this type of reasoning is both challenging and important. Results from two studies are reported. The first describes students' approaches to carbon cycle pool-and-flux reasoning. The second describes and reports results from an…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Teaching Methods, Correlation, Heuristics
Legates, David R.; Soon, Willie; Briggs, William M.; Monckton of Brenchley, Christopher – Science & Education, 2015
Agnotology is the study of how ignorance arises via circulation of misinformation calculated to mislead. Legates et al. ("Sci Educ" 22:2007-2017, 2013) had questioned the applicability of agnotology to politically-charged debates. In their reply, Bedford and Cook ("Sci Educ" 22:2019-2030, 2013), seeking to apply agnotology to…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Science Education, Climate, Ecology
Olufemi, Adejoke Christianah; Mji, Andile; Mukhola, Murembiwa S. – Environmental Education Research, 2016
In this paper, we compared the levels of awareness, knowledge and attitudes (AKA) about environmental pollution of secondary school students from two South African provinces. The purpose was to determine the levels of AKA between students living under different environmental conditions. These two groups were students from a coal-mining province…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pollution, Statistical Analysis, Secondary School Students
Clary, Renee M.; Sumrall, Jeanne L.; Rodgers, John C., III; Wandersee, James H. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2013
The 2010 "Deepwater Horizon" oil spill greatly affected the Gulf Coast, and the news media reported information to wide audiences. Students enrolled in an online Environmental Geoscience course in fall 2010 voluntarily participated in a Gulf oil spill survey. More than 92% of the students (N = 77; 83 total enrollment), who were primarily…
Descriptors: Water Pollution, Fuels, Environmental Education, Earth Science

Knamiller, Gary W.; Obeng-Asamoah, John – Journal of Environmental Education, 1979
The environmental awareness of village and rural children in Ghana differed from that of urban children. This study explores the knowledge of some Ghanaian children about water and full resources and their relationship to local development issues. (Author/RE)
Descriptors: African Culture, Attitudes, Conservation (Environment), Developing Nations
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

Dunlop, David L. – Journal of Environmental Education, 1979
The article describes a study of the effects of experience with an energy-environment simulator on the attitudes of its users. The study concludes that tools like the energy simulator appear to provide an important way to help educators take a leadership role in solving energy problems. (RE)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Demography, Energy, Energy Conservation