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Magne Husby; Tove Anita Fiskum; Boris Belchev; Taulant Bino; Iordan Hristov; Oskars Keišs; Hanna Kuzyo; Veronika Samotskaya; Marko Šciban; Iva Šoštaric – Journal of Biological Education, 2025
Biology education worldwide at different levels involves learning to identify plants and animals in nature. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of a teaching and learning method for bird identification that combines active outdoor fieldwork with active online learning, testing the validity of our instrument. Altogether, 798…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Animals, Wildlife, Identification
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Straub, Miranda C. P. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2020
In this study, students enrolled in a basic physics class participated in one of the online citizen science projects available on the Zooniverse website (www.zooniverse.org) as a homework assignment. They then wrote a 300-500-word reflection about their experience addressing several questions given as prompts. The analysis of the responses showed…
Descriptors: Student Reaction, Web Sites, Student Participation, Citizen Participation
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Bogucki, Ryan; Greggila, Mary; Mallory, Paul; Feng, Jiansheng; Siman, Kelly; Khakipoor, Banafsheh; King, Hunter; Smith, Adam W. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2019
Low cost, open-source analytical instrumentation has the potential to increase educational outcomes for students and enable large-scale citizen science projects. Many of these instruments rely on smartphones to collect the data, mainly because they can effectively leverage a dramatic price-to-performance ratio of the optical sensors. However,…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Science Instruction, Chemistry