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Learning to Question: The Roles of Multiple Hypotheses, Successive Approximations, Balloons and Toilet Paper in University Science Programs of Southwestern Amazonia
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Brown, I. Foster – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2008
Learning to question is essential for determining pathways of conservation and development in southwestern Amazonia during a time of rapid global environmental change. Teaching such an approach in graduate science programs in regional universities can be done using play-acting and simulation exercises. Multiple working hypotheses help students…
Descriptors: Science Programs, Teaching Methods, Problem Solving, Graduate Students
The GLOBE Visualization Project: Using WWW in the Classroom.
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de La Beaujardiere, J-F; And Others – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 1997
Describes a World Wide Web-based, user-friendly, language-independent graphical user interface providing access to visualizations created for GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment), a multinational program of education and science. (DDR)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries