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Murphy, Kathleen C.; Dilip, Meghna; Quattrucci, Joseph G.; Mitroka, Susan M.; Andreatta, Jeremy R. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2019
A summer workshop was offered to inner-city high school students to explore the sustainability of their consumer choices using a systems thinking model. Students learned about related environmental or health issues due to the manufacturing, use, or disposal of common household products. Then, in the laboratory, they performed experiments to…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Chemistry, Science Education, Summer Programs
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Hammann, Marcus; Jördens, Janina; Büschgens, Désirée – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Student interest in plants is lacking. Therefore, we investigated potential drivers of situational interest in cultivated plants and interactions between different dimensions of interest, i.e. topic, context and learning activity. A total of 462 high school students (14-17 years of age) rated two sets of questionnaire items combining eight plants…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), Horticulture, Student Interests, Context Effect