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Ryken, Amy E.; Foreman, Laura Bowers; Tudor, Margaret; Koehler, Gary – Science Teacher, 2008
In a research collaboration with government biologists and university educators, K-12 students in the Cle Elum-Roslyn (CER) School District in eastern Washington are investigating where cougars ("Puma concolor") go when their habitat gives way to new housing developments. Now in its seventh year, Project Cougars and Teaching (CAT) is taking the…
Descriptors: Investigations, Environmental Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Ecology
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Windschitl, Mark; Dvornich, Karen; Ryken, Amy E.; Tudor, Margaret; Koehler, Gary – School Science and Mathematics, 2007
Field investigations are not characterized by randomized and manipulated control group experiments; however, most school science and high-stakes tests recognize only this paradigm of investigation. Scientists in astronomy, genetics, field biology, oceanography, geology, and meteorology routinely select naturally occurring events and conditions and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Scientists, Oceanography, Meteorology