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Kasey Harmon; Taylor K. Ruth; Nathan W. Conner; Bryan Reiling; Christopher T. Stripling – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2025
Teaching with inquiry-based learning (IBL) can be used to increase high school students' science proficiency levels. Teachers must also be equipped and prepared to teach inquiry-based learning concepts. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate how prolonged professional development (PD) about IBL impacts science and agriscience teachers' intent to…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Inquiry, Faculty Development, Science Education
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Land, Nicole; Hamm, Catherine; Yazbeck, Sherri-Lynn; Brown, Miriam; Danis, Ildikó; Nelson, Narda – Global Studies of Childhood, 2020
Working with stories of children's relationships with place and technologies from an early childhood education pedagogical inquiry research project in Melbourne, Australia and Victoria, Canada, this article takes up the concept of "pedagogical intentions" to consider how educators and researchers might cultivate intentional teaching…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Videoconferencing, Early Childhood Education, Caring
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Clayborn, Jaeson; Medina, Miles; O'Brien, George – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2017
To evaluate the willingness of teachers to incorporate aquaponics in the classroom, we engaged teachers in a 6-week project. Participants in the experimental group maintained small-scale aquaponic systems. All teachers completed pretests and posttests, and exit surveys. Both groups (experimental and control) scored significantly higher on the…
Descriptors: Gardening, Water, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes
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Pearson, Elissa L.; Dorrian, Jillian; Litchfield, Carla A. – Environmental Education Research, 2013
Despite the endangered status of the orangutan, very little research has sought to understand what people know about this species or the conservation challenges they face. As zoos are well placed to influence such understandings, the present study sought to explore knowledge following a visit to orangutan exhibits at three Australian zoos…
Descriptors: Recreational Facilities, Animals, Wildlife, Conservation (Environment)