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Ayotte-Beaudet, Jean-Philippe; Chastenay, Pierre; Beaudry, Marie-Claude; L'Heureux, Kassandra; Giamellaro, Michael; Smith, Jonathan; Desjarlais, Estelle; Paquette, Alain – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
The present study explored the impacts of a contextualised outdoor science curriculum on "what" and "how" elementary students learn when immersed in the local contexts in which natural phenomena occur. We conducted 63 individual interviews with fifth- and sixth-graders (between 10 and 12 years old) living in the inner city of…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Science Education, Elementary School Students, Ecology
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Gomez Galindo, Alma Adrianna; Sanmarti, Neus; Pujol, Rosa Maria – Journal of Biological Education, 2006
This paper is part of an investigation into 11-year-old students' interpretations of events in the environment. In particular, we analyse the use of a scale model constructed and manipulated by students when simulating a forest fire. We consider that their explanations involve the interrelation of three levels of organisation: the level at which…
Descriptors: Evidence, Measures (Individuals), Vocational Education, Concept Formation