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Pitt, Aleksandra N.; Schultz, Courtney A.; Vaske, Jerry J. – Environmental Education Research, 2019
The US Forest Service has a long history of youth conservation education. We investigated U.S. Forest Service citizen science programs that involve secondary school students in field collection of monitoring data to understand (1) how the programs integrated science and environmental education and (2) whether these programs advance ecological…
Descriptors: Literacy, Environmental Education, Program Descriptions, Forestry
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McCaslin, Mary; Good, Thomas L. – Teachers College Record, 2008
Background/Context: The U.S. federal government has been interested in improving the performance of students who come from low-income homes since the time of Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" initiatives in the 1960s. The current administration strongly supports the belief that good schools can be created and has funded the Comprehensive…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Program Design, School Restructuring, Elementary Schools
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Mueller, Michael P.; Valderrama, Paige – Science Teacher, 2006
For many years, the planet Mars was nothing more than a little red dot in a sea of stars and a blur in many science classrooms. Recent focus on the planet, however, has led to incredible teaching opportunities, such as the Mars Student Imaging Project (MSIP) facilitated by Arizona State University's Mars Education Program. The MSIP curriculum…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Earth Science, Astronomy, Student Attitudes