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Exploring elementary students’ understanding of energy and climate change

Year: 2008
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: As environmental changes become a significant societal issue, elementary science curriculaneed to develop students’ understanding about the key concepts of energy and climate change.For teachers, developing quality learning experiences involves establishing what theirstudents’ prior understanding about energy and climate change are. A survey was developed toexplore what elementary students know and understand about renewable and non-renewablesources of energy and their relationship to climate change issues. The findings from thissurvey are reported in this paper.
Author: Colin BOYLAN
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $350
OpenAlex ID: W2183003624
FWCI: 4.011
Cites: 77
Cited by: 48
Related to: 10