Download or read book Combining Environmental Education and STEM Education to Influence the Opinions Interest and Locus of Control of Middle School Students written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The research question addressed in the project was, how does the addition of environmental education to STEM education influence opinions, interest, and locus of control of middle school students? This capstone documents the modifying and implementation process of the Clean Water project developed by Yvonne Ng and presents to middle school students. It integrated the use of problem solving skills when learning about the environmental issue of clean water resources by use of various materials and multiple technologies. The main study of this capstone was to view before and after opinions and interests for STEM and environmental education through Q-sort methodology and documents the process of the Clean Water project with students in grades fifth through eighth" --
Download or read book Building STEM Skills Through Environmental Education written by Schroth, Stephen T. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental studies provide an ideal opportunity for children of any age to build critical and creative thinking skills while also building skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Exploring issues related to sustainability and environmental concerns permits learners to identify problems, develop research questions, gather and analyze data, develop possible solutions, and disseminate this information to others. Despite the advantages of green education and its ability to improve student achievement, there is a gap in understanding the interplay between curriculum and instruction and how this affects teaching and learning. Building STEM Skills Through Environmental Education is an essential publication that addresses gaps in the understanding of green education and offers educators meaningful and comprehensive examples of environmental and sustainability education in the Pre-K through secondary grade levels. The book offers a unique combination of foundational understanding of green education and chapters that illustrate the principles and impact of green education across grade levels, content areas, assessment systems, instructional strategies, technology, and other related topics. It is ideally designed for educators, curriculum developers, instructional designers, advocates, policymakers, researchers, academicians, and students.
Download or read book Environmental Science for Grades 6 12 written by Jorge Valenzuela and published by International Society for Technology in Education. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apply high-quality project-based learning strategies to create lessons and units that help students solve a variety of urgent environmental problems. Environmental science (ES) education is essential to preparing today’s students for the future. We must create opportunities for hands-on investigations that explore complex environmental problems in order to find solutions and meet the challenges of our changing world. Educators looking to bring ES-focused experiences to their students can turn to technology and social-emotional learning (SEL) strategies to connect students with real-world situations and citizen science opportunities, while fostering empathy and a love for the natural world. Project-based learning (PBL), with its emphasis on inquiry and authentic challenges, can be an effective approach to teaching ES. Those new to PBL may not feel they have adequate training. Likewise, teachers who haven’t taught ES may question how to incorporate it into their curriculum. This book addresses both situations, providing practical guidance for teachers, along with examples of technology-rich, learner-centered student projects addressing timely topics such as sustainability, human impact and climate change. This book: • Helps teachers design learning experiences that model authentic problems and processes practiced by scientists and engineers, to prepare students for future careers in science. • Addresses diversity, equity and inclusion in ES, and shares resources and strategies for addressing racial equity in ES. • Introduces facilitation techniques that redefine the teacher’s traditional role as one that supports increased student agency, the development of critical thinking skills and an expanded awareness of their place in the global community. • Includes a chapter that focuses on applying the principles and strategies shared in the book in an online learning environment. • Addresses Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) topics in environmental science and is aligned to the ISTE Standards for Educators. PBL is one of the best ways for students to explore complex processes and concepts, and this book will help teachers leverage this approach to empower students to take action toward a better future and world.
Download or read book Teaching Toward Rightful Presence in Middle School STEM written by Edna Tan and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2023-10-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical guidance for teachers aiming to strategically support the full participation and engagement of minoritized students in STEM education. In Teaching Toward Rightful Presence in Middle School STEM, Edna Tan and Angela Calabrese Barton introduce the rightful presence framework, a multifaceted approach to instruction that enables historically marginalized students to gain agency in their science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning. This necessary work presents practical, justice-centered STEM pedagogy that can begin to reverse the messages of exclusion that have pervaded K–12 science education. Tan and Calabrese Barton first delve into the complex legacy of systemic injustice in education, showing how forms of racialization and colonization that are manifest in schooling practices have excluded and led to the disengagement of students who have been historically marginalized because of their race, immigration status, language, class, sexuality, or gender. Through cases and vignettes from middle-school classrooms, they illustrate real-life strategies and instructional decisions that help counteract inequalities. Reaching beyond inclusion, they suggest approaches such as coplanning, coproduction, and community ethnography that disrupt the norms of the science classroom and validate the community's powerful cultural knowledge and relevant experience. Tan and Calabrese Barton show how the rightful presence framework can foster student engagement and support identity formation. This work gives teachers and other practitioners a means to critique, challenge, and disrupt underlying power structures in middle school STEM.
Download or read book Learners and Learning written by Ian Moll and published by . This book was released on 2001-10-31 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learners and learning is the fourth module in the study of education series, and it aims to enable teachers to analyse learning and reflect on what they can do to improve it. It draws on the learning theories of various writers, including Piaget and Vygotsky, and grounds these in examples, practical exercises, and case studies drawn from schools. This module includes an interactive learning guide, a reader, and an audiotape. The study of education series is a project of the South African institute for distance eduaction (SAIDE). Aimed at formal and informal teacher education, this series presents valuable open-learning materials for use in distance education or in face-to-face teaching. Intended for use in colleges of education at diploma level, these modules may also be usedwith additional readings in higher or postgraduate diploma courses.
Download or read book An Experimental Study of the Effectiveness of an Environmental Education Program on the Expressed Attitudes of Middle School Students written by Virginia Miglierini-Kimyai and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Connecting Interest in and Awareness of the Environment with an Informal Experience written by Miranda Louise Wait and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universities play an important part in creating a more environmental literate society and providing resources to help encourage more people to enter STEM careers, a rapidly growing field in a time where environmental issues are becoming more of a worldwide concern. The responsibility for solving these issues is being left to the younger generations (Wang & Zhang, 2021), and universities need to take a more active role in environmental decisions and practices by regarding their students as our future community leaders, decision makers, and opinion shapers as the future of our society (Gurbuz & Ozkan, 2019). For this study, I aimed to look at how an informal learning experience, as part of a mandatory class at a university, affected students' interest in and awareness of science, STEM careers, and environmental issues. I used the theoretical framework of "science capital," a conceptual theory on how to use the experiences that a person is provided in supporting and enhancing people's attitude, engagement, and participation in science (Archer et al., 2022). I created a pre- and post- questionnaire by combining four instruments: STEM Semantics Survey, Environmental Awareness Questionnaire, Relevance of Science Education-D, and STEM Career Interest Questionnaire. The participants in this study were university freshman students enrolled in a mandatory class designed for freshman, which also included a glass-bottom boat ride as an informal learning experience, part of a nature and research center part of the university campus. I expected that the students who participated in the study would have an increase in their interest in and awareness of STEM, science, environmental awareness, and STEM careers. My assumption was that there would be an increase, whether it was minimal or significant, in either of the areas. Results from the study were mostly insignificant for the impacts of glass-bottom boat ride on the opinions of the students. The p-values found were statistically insignificant for all scales in each instrument except for the STEM Semantics Survey scale for math and the Environmental Awareness Questionnaire scale for "interest in nature", inferring that the treatment of the boat ride did not have a statistically significant effect on the students' STEM, environment, and science perceptions. However, the implications of the study with other research shows that with an increase of similar opportunities, there is a potential to make an impact in student's interest in and awareness of STEM, the environment, and opportunities within STEM career fields.
Download or read book EcoJustice Citizen Science and Youth Activism written by Michael P. Mueller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume draws on the ecojustice, citizen science and youth activism literature base in science education and applies the ideas to situated tensions as they are either analyzed theoretically or praxiologically within science education pedagogy. It uses ecojustice to evaluate the holistic connections between cultural and natural systems, environmentalism, sustainability and Earth-friendly marketing trends, and introduces citizen science and youth activism as two of the pedagogical ways ecojustice philosophy can be enacted. It also comprises evidence-based practice with international service, community embedded curriculum, teacher preparation, citizen monitoring and community activism, student-scientist partnerships, socioscientific issues, and new avenues for educational research.
Download or read book Teaching Environmental Education Through Ecology based Field Studies written by Seth R. Needler and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Relationship Between Middle Level School Science Programs and a Residential Environmental Learning Center written by Ryan Mathew Walker and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multiple case study investigation examines the relationship between a residential environmental learning center and six schools that attend their program. Pre-experience interviews were conducted with teachers to gain understanding of how they integrate the residential experience with formal classroom instruction. On-site observations of teacher participation during the program provided insight into how they foster student learning during the experience. A student questionnaire was used to reveal students' perceptions of three areas of interest: 1) most meaningful aspects of the experience, 2) most confusing aspects of the experience and 3) topics they would like to know more about. These data inform how pre-experience preparation and activity scheduling influence student perceptions of expected outcomes. Interviews with the residential learning center education staff describe the importance and difficulties associated establishing a working relationship with classroom teachers. Results reveal that the residential learning center school programs offer students an opportunity to experience and learn content that is aligned to the ideal curriculum of environmental education including ecological principles, issue identification, solution formation, civic responsibility and motivation. The residential learning center provides students an opportunity to connect with nature and students identified out-of doors science investigations as the most meaningful aspect of the experience. Teachers underestimated the influence of teaching science outdoors and pre-experience preparation impacts student outcomes. Using grounded theory methodology this research identified eight causal conditions, which act as barriers to engaging teachers in onsite instruction. Four of these conditions are specific to teachers and the remaining four are products of the education staff. Recommendation and implications for teacher professional development are discussed.
Download or read book Making Science written by Christa Flores and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Science: Reimagining STEM Education in Middle School and Beyond is a guide to help educators use new technology and a designer mindset to create personalized learning experiences that engage students in the wonder of science. This is an inclusive STEM curriculum that empowers students to become informed citizens and global problem-solvers.
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Science Education Now written by European Commission and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recoge: 1. Background analysis - 2. Mandate-work carried out - 3. Findings - 4. Recommendations - 5. Conclusion - 6. Appendices.
Download or read book Constructivist Approach to Teaching Middle School Environmental Education written by Charles F. Harley and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My research will involve the use of a science-based curriculum that provides the students and teachers a step-by-step process for learning about environmental issues and their impact on human health and environmental quality." -- Abstract.
Download or read book Motivation in Environmental Education written by Beth A. Covitt and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effect of Participation in Place based Environmental Education Programs on Student Affect Toward Science written by Jennifer Elizabeth Dudley and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
