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Direct linkChi-I Lin; Yuh-Yuh Li – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the potential of an empathetic mindset aimed at empowering undergraduate students to work toward sustainable development (SD), addressing both theoretical and practical dimensions. Design/methodology/approach: A mixed quantitative and qualitative research method was used in this study. Cross-sectional…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Empathy, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
Corkery, Catherine – Primary Science, 2022
In response to primary students' pleas to learn more about the environment during the current climate crisis, St. Bernadette's Catholic Primary School in Birmingham has helped children investigate issues related to climate change and address ways each person can help to heal the imbalance between humans and the natural world. In this article,…
Descriptors: Oceanography, Environmental Education, Catholic Schools, Elementary School Students
Kerry Chappell; Lindsay Hetherington – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2024
This paper delves deeply into the creative pedagogies which support cutting edge digital STEAM practice across primary and secondary school settings. It contextualises the research within current STEAM agendas including transdisciplinarity, and STEAM and technology and goes on to offer insight from the novel context of ocean learning to develop…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Oceanography
McGuire, Margit; Stevahn, Laurie – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2022
Concerns about environmental sustainability are constantly in the news as global warming, fossil fuels, and pollutants increasingly endanger habitats worldwide. What once were uncommon extreme environmental events have become commonplace--unseasonal intense heat, year-round drought, raging wildfires, rising sea levels, severe storms, massive…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Sustainability, World Problems, Experiential Learning
Download full textNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2021
The Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts described in Version 3 of this guide represent content that does not fall neatly within traditional science disciplines, but rather supports a focus on integrated science. Many Fundamental Concepts illustrate more than one Essential Principle. This guide presents a vision of an ocean-literate…
Descriptors: Oceanography, Scientific Concepts, Science Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education
Leitão, Rui; Maguire, Martin; Turner, Sarah; Guimarães, Laura – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
Motivation theory is indispensable when discussing processes of learning. Learners who are motivated can learn almost everything. Students' motivation is probably one of the most important factors for teacher effectiveness both for engagement in the learning process and high academic performance. To have effective environmental education, it is…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Game Based Learning, Student Motivation, Environmental Education
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2023
This guide includes 8 elementary school level lessons, inspired by topics from "Ocean Odyssey," a film for IMAX and other Giant Screen theaters. Host-narrated by oceanographer Sylvia Earle, "Ocean Odyssey" is an immersive film following a mother and calf humpback whale on their migration from the tropics to Antarctica.…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Oceanography, Films, Animals
Ostertag, Julia; Ammendolia, Justine; Vance, Alexandra; McPherson, Kerri; Hamelin, Kayla M.; Cousineau, Maryse; Daoud, Dounia; Morissette, Lyne; Orren, Kimberly; Hill, Amy; VanderKloet, Evelien; Whoriskey, Fred; Iverson, Sara; Sutherland, Maggie; Denny, Shelley; Beland, Joseph; Syliboy, Alanna; Stokesbury, Michael J. W.; Porter, Darren – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2021
In this article, we consider the role of ocean literacy in coastal communities as an approach that fosters relevant, community-based learning. We also propose solutions to challenges facing human-ocean relationships by cultivating common understanding and collective action. We present four examples of community-based ocean literacy in…
Descriptors: Community Education, Oceanography, Foreign Countries, Social Action
Leitão, Rui; Maguire, Martin; Turner, Sarah; Arenas, Francisco; Guimarães, Laura – Environmental Education Research, 2022
Low levels of concern about anthropogenic climate change have been attributed to a range of factors, some of which relate to education. These include people's lack of understanding and engagement with the multifaceted nature and extent of the problem that it presents to current and future generations. Limited knowledge is also known to be an…
Descriptors: Oceanography, Environmental Education, Literature Reviews, Game Based Learning
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2020
The Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts described in Version 3 of this guide represent content that does not fall neatly within traditional science disciplines, but rather supports a focus on integrated science. Many Fundamental Concepts illustrate more than one Essential Principle. This guide presents a vision of an ocean-literate…
Descriptors: Oceanography, Scientific Concepts, Science Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education
Roy, Noémie – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2021
Protecting coastal ecosystems and communities requires the engagement of ocean literate citizens. Along the St. Lawrence Estuary, in Canada, a rural community mobilized to save its middle school by creating an innovative program connecting the existing curriculum to the ocean. This research explores the rationale, barriers, and enablers of…
Descriptors: Oceanography, Geographic Location, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries
Costa, Dimítri de Araújo; de Lucena, Reinaldo Farias Paiva; Christoffersen, Martin Lindsey; Piñeiro-Corbeira, Cristina; Dolbeth, Marina – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2022
This work aimed to raise ocean awareness of 6th-grade students using marine invertebrates and integrating ludic activities within the curricula. Forty-two students from two public elementary schools from Northeast Brazil were selected. A pre-experimental design with pre-test/post-test was followed, using a questionnaire on…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Grade 6, Oceanography, Elementary School Students
McCauley, Veronica; McHugh, Patricia; Davison, Kevin; Domegan, Christine – Environmental Education Research, 2019
Ocean literacy is an understanding of the ocean's influence on us and our influence on the ocean. A lack of ocean literacy presents a significant obstacle for citizens to engage in environmentally sustainable behaviour, and thus is acknowledged as a 'complex problem' that requires deliberative participation and joint-action by stakeholders across…
Descriptors: Marine Education, Intelligence, Oceanography, Participatory Research
Pazoto, Carmen; Duarte, Michelle; Silva, Edson – Journal of Environmental Education, 2023
Worldwide initiatives have been promoting awareness on marine environmental issues. In Brazil Maritime Mentality Program arises from political disputes over the right to use maritime spaces, Coastal Marine Environmental Education shares the same theoretical basis as Environmental Education and Ocean Literacy appears in the USA and became globally…
Descriptors: Marine Education, Environmental Education, Political Attitudes, Oceanography
Christie-Blick, Kottie – Science and Children, 2022
In this article, the author describes an activity using physical models -- each a clear plastic box enclosing a miniature coastal town, complete with real water in the "ocean." This activity shows students a natural cause-and-effect relationship that is scientifically simple, yet even many adults don't grasp the worldwide implications:…
Descriptors: Oceanography, Climate, Learning Activities, Change
