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Trygstad, Peggy J.; Smith, P. Sean; Craven, Laura M. – Horizon Research, Inc., 2021
This report presents results from a survey of over 2,000 K-12 science teachers regarding their instruction related to COVID-19. Teachers were surveyed in the spring of 2020 shortly after school buildings closed. In addition, 40 teachers were interviewed. Results are reported separately for elementary, middle, and high school teachers. [This report…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
How "green" are 15-year-olds? To what extent do they understand environmental issues? What are the sources of their information about the environment? Can they apply scientific principles and evidence to the world around them? This paper reports that across OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries, around…
Descriptors: School Activities, Environmental Education, Scientific Principles, Scientific Concepts
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Ulloa, Carlos; Rey, Guillermo D.; Sánchez, Ángel; Cancela, Ángeles – Education Sciences, 2012
A WebQuest is an Internet-based and inquiry-oriented learning activity. The aim of this work is to outline the creation of a WebQuest entitled "Power Generation Plants: Steam and Gas Turbines." This is one of the topics covered in the course "Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer," which is offered in the second year of Mechanical…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Internet, Web Sites, Learning Activities
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Birdsall, Sally – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2013
Science and education for sustainability have recently become estranged. Both of these learning areas are also experiencing issues that are affecting students' understandings in these areas. This paper presents a framework of learning containing 12 components that reconstructs the relationship between these two areas and could have the potential…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Scientific Literacy, Science Education
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McGrath, William E. – Library Trends, 2002
Develops a comprehensive, unified, explanatory theory of librarianship by first making an analogy to the unification of the fundamental forces of nature. Topics include dependent and independent variables; publishing; acquisitions; classification and organization of knowledge; storage, preservation, and collection management; collections; and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Classification, Library Acquisition, Library Circulation