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Direct linkBeavis, Sara; Beckmann, Elizabeth A. – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2012
What are the benefits of engaging undergraduate students with authentic, inquiry-based curricula that develop transdisciplinary research skills? Internationally, many educators believe that research-active curricula help students better understand how scientific and technological concepts underlie the complexities of our world, especially in the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Water, Environmental Education, Research Methodology
Angelaina, Sophia; Jimoyiannis, Athanassios – Educational Media International, 2012
This paper reports on a case study investigating students' participation and learning presence in an educational blog implemented as a cross-thematic inquiry activity exploring and debating on the acid rain problem. Twenty-one secondary education students (14-15 years aged), coming from two separate classes, were involved. The content and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Web 2.0 Technologies
Barab, Sasha A.; Scott, Brianna; Siyahhan, Sinem; Goldstone, Robert; Ingram-Goble, Adam; Zuiker, Steven J.; Warren, Scott – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2009
Drawing on game-design principles and an underlying situated theoretical perspective, we developed and researched a 3D game-based curriculum designed to teach water quality concepts. We compared undergraduate student dyads assigned randomly to four different instructional design conditions where the content had increasingly level of…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Undergraduate Students, Water Quality, Test Items
Download full textGunckel, Kristin L.; Moore, Felicia M. – Online Submission, 2005
This paper highlights two strategies to include students and teachers as partners in the co-design of the enacted curriculum. During the development cycle, the design team developed sixteen lessons that included inquiry opportunities, small group conversations, and multiple perspectives around complex issues. The lessons were implemented during…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Water, Evaluators, Teacher Student Relationship
Ketelhut, Diane Jass; Nelson, Brian C. – Educational Research, 2010
Background: Most policy doctrines promote the use of scientific inquiry in the K-12 classroom, but good inquiry is hard to implement, particularly for schools with fiscal and safety constraints and for teachers struggling with understanding how to do so. Purpose: In this paper, we present the design of a multi-user virtual environment (MUVE)…
Descriptors: Suburban Schools, Student Attitudes, Virtual Classrooms, Science Curriculum
Waugh, Michael; And Others – 1988
Arguing that electronic networking provides a medium which is qualitatively superior to the traditional classroom for conducting certain types of problem solving exercises, this paper details the Water Problem Solving Project, which was conducted on the InterCultural Learning Network in 1985 and 1986 with students from the United States, Mexico,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Networks, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries
