Urban Ecologists: A New After-School Program Teaching Inner-City Children about Urban Ecology. Project Report

Autor/inn/en	Buo, Carrie; Eagle-Malone, Rebecca
Titel	Urban Ecologists: A New After-School Program Teaching Inner-City Children about Urban Ecology. Project Report
Quelle	13 (2021) 1, S.5-13 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Buo, Carrie) ORCID (Eagle-Malone, Rebecca)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Urban Youth; Ecology; Urban Environment; After School Education; Elementary School Students; Grade 5; Physical Environment; Student Attitudes; Childrens Art; Freehand Drawing; Science Instruction; Program Effectiveness; Ohio + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Urban area; Urban areas; Youth; Stadtregion; Stadt; Jugend; Ökologie; Stadtökologie; After-school programs; After school programs; Out of school education; Out-of-school education; Außerschulische Jugendbildung; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; Natürliche Umwelt; Schülerverhalten; Drawing; Zeichnen; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht
Abstract	Children in urban environments tend to have limited exposure to environmental education programs for many reasons. This paper describes the development of a short-session after-school program, created to introduce children in an inner-city school to the concept of urban ecology. In this program, we met with a class of 20 fifth graders once a week for four weeks and evaluated students' perceptions of nature with a pre-post-intervention activity that asked students to draw a picture describing "nature." Researchers evaluated the drawings together. The results indicated an increase in the instances of animals and insects in drawings with fewer anthropic influences, such as people, buildings, and vehicles. Overall, the program achieved its goal of exposing urban children to the ecology all around them. (As Provided).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01