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Magntorn, Ola; Hellden, Gustav – International Journal of Science Education, 2007
This paper is based on a study of how students' read nature in different ecosystems. Its focus is on ecology and the context is outdoors. This literacy has to do with an ability to recognise organisms and relate them to material cycling and energy flow in the specific habitat that is to be read. A teaching sequence was designed in order to develop…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Activities, Spatial Ability, Ecology
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Magntorn, Ola; Hellden, Gustav – Journal of Biological Education, 2007
This paper reports on a study of ecology teaching and learning in a Swedish primary school class (age 10-11 yrs). A teaching sequence was designed to help students read nature in a river ecosystem. The teaching sequence had a "bottom up" approach, taking as its starting point a common key organism--the freshwater shrimp. From this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Concept Mapping, Ecology, Elementary School Students