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Does Socio/Economic Status Affect Environmental Awarness In Elementary School Children Interacting With School Gardens?, Grady C. Erickson
Does Socio/Economic Status Affect Environmental Awarness In Elementary School Children Interacting With School Gardens?, Grady C. Erickson
Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses
This is a case study involving three elementary schools in the greater Lincoln, Nebraska area. These schools were chosen to provide insight to three different economic backgrounds. Saratoga and Randolph from Lincoln Public Schools, and Norris Elementary part of Norris Public Schools 160 was the third school involved in the study. This case study focused on seeing whether socio/economic background had any effect on environmental awareness. To do so, surveys were handed out to each school to help measure environmental awareness. These surveys also helped determine where the environmental literacy standards were in the elementary schools of Lincoln, Nebraska. The …
Educators' Attitudes Toward Outdoor Classrooms And The Cognitive Benefits In Children, Carlie Speedlin
Educators' Attitudes Toward Outdoor Classrooms And The Cognitive Benefits In Children, Carlie Speedlin
Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses
A case study was organized at a K-5 elementary school in Lincoln, Nebraksa. This school is Saratoga Elementary School and is a United States Title I Distinguished School1 under No Child Left Behind. It has a population of 266 students, with 47% being minority, 1% gifted, and 28% special education (LPS School Profile Brochure). 80% of the student population is eligible for free/reduced meals, implying that it’s a school with a lower socioeconomic status. At this school a garden space was constructed and an after school garden club was implemented for this case study. The club had been running since …
Nebraska Urban Environmental And Agricultural Systems Education Program: An Evaluation For Development, Heather Ann Borck
Nebraska Urban Environmental And Agricultural Systems Education Program: An Evaluation For Development, Heather Ann Borck
Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Scholarship
In Understanding Agriculture: New Directions for Education, the National Research Council (1988) reported, “Too many Americans know very little about the social and economic relevance of agriculture in the United States, and agriculture is too important a subject to be taught only to a relatively small proportion of students enrolled in vocational agriculture” (p.1). Now over 20 years later, this problem is still relevant. During the 2007-2008 school year 10.5 percent of Nebraska high school students were enrolled in an agricultural education course. This may be the result of an absence of agricultural education in the largest four school districts …
Place As Text: Approaches To Active Learning (Second Edition), Bernice Braid, Ada Long
Place As Text: Approaches To Active Learning (Second Edition), Bernice Braid, Ada Long
National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs
CONTENTS
Dedication and Acknowledgments
Preface to the Second Edition — Ada Long and Bernice Braid
Introduction — Bernice Braid
Honors Semesters: Anatomy of Active Learning — William Daniel
Honors Semesters: An Architecture of Active Learning — Bernice Braid
Internal Assessment of Honors Semesters — Ann Raia
External Evaluation of Honors Semesters — Ada Long
Student Perspectives on Honors Semesters — Elizabeth Beck
Other Structural Models of Active Learning
City as Text™ — Bernice Braid
Faculty Institutes — William Daniel
Summer High School Field Experiences — Bernice Braid
Sleeping Bag Seminars — Joan Digby
College Recruitment Exercises — Bernadette Low
Orientation …