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Article: Student ideas: what is an environment?(Research Summary)
- Article from:
- The Journal of Environmental Education
- Article date:
- June 22, 2005
- Author:
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ABSTRACT: The author investigated students' ideas about what defines an environment and how these ideas change across grade level and educational experience. A total of 81 students were sampled: 18 seventh graders, 20 eighth graders, and 24 ninth graders from general biology, and 19 ninth graders from college preparatory biology. The environments task was a two-part task. First, students drew a picture of an environment and explained their drawing. Next, students were shown a series of photographs and asked to indicate whether the photograph depicted an environment and to explain their response. In general, students understood an environment from a limited ecological ...