Social Science

Eco-Solutioning: The Design and Evaluation of a Curricular Unit to Foster Students’ Creation of Solutions to Address Local Socio-Scientific Issues

The global pandemic and climate change have led to unprecedented environmental, social, and economic challenges with interdisciplinary STEM foundations. Even as STEM learning has never been more important, very few pre-college programs prepare students to address these challenges by emphasizing socio-scientific issue (SSI) problem solving and the engineering design of solutions to address local phenomena.

Author/Presenter

Nancy Butler Songer

Guillermo D. Ibarrola Recalde

Lead Organization(s)
Year
2021
Short Description

The global pandemic and climate change have led to unprecedented environmental, social, and economic challenges with interdisciplinary STEM foundations. Even as STEM learning has never been more important, very few pre-college programs prepare students to address these challenges by emphasizing socio-scientific issue (SSI) problem solving and the engineering design of solutions to address local phenomena. The paper discusses the design and evaluation of a pre-college, SSI curricular unit where students expand their learning by creating solutions to increase biodiversity within local urban neighborhoods.

USA Science and Engineering Festival

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DR K-12 Project:

  • Marina Bers (DevTech Research Group), Tufts University (Projects: Ready for Robotics: The Missing T and E of STEM in Early Childhood Education; ScratchJr: Computer Programming in Early Childhood Education as a Pathway to Academic Readiness and Success (Collaborative Research: Bers))

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Enhancing the Authenticity of a Web-Based Module for Teaching Simple Inheritance

Tali, T., Kali, Y., Magid, S., & Madhok, J. (2011). Enhancing the authenticity of a web-based module for teaching simple inheritance. In T. D. Sadler (Ed.), Socio-scientific issues in science classroom: Teaching, learning and research (pp.11-38). Springer.

ABSTRACT:

Author/Presenter

Tali Tal

Yael Kali

Stella Magid

Jacqueline J. Madhok

Year
2011

Enhancing the Authenticity of a Web-Based Module for Teaching Simple Inheritance

Tali, T., Kali, Y., Magid, S., & Madhok, J. (2011). Enhancing the authenticity of a web-based module for teaching simple inheritance. In T. D. Sadler (Ed.), Socio-scientific issues in science classroom: Teaching, learning and research (pp.11-38). Springer.

ABSTRACT:

Author/Presenter

Tali Tal

Yael Kali

Stella Magid

Jacqueline J. Madhok

Year
2011

Enhancing the Authenticity of a Web-Based Module for Teaching Simple Inheritance

Tali, T., Kali, Y., Magid, S., & Madhok, J. (2011). Enhancing the authenticity of a web-based module for teaching simple inheritance. In T. D. Sadler (Ed.), Socio-scientific issues in science classroom: Teaching, learning and research (pp.11-38). Springer.

ABSTRACT:

Author/Presenter

Tali Tal

Yael Kali

Stella Magid

Jacqueline J. Madhok

Year
2011

Enhancing the Authenticity of a Web-Based Module for Teaching Simple Inheritance

Tali, T., Kali, Y., Magid, S., & Madhok, J. (2011). Enhancing the authenticity of a web-based module for teaching simple inheritance. In T. D. Sadler (Ed.), Socio-scientific issues in science classroom: Teaching, learning and research (pp.11-38). Springer.

ABSTRACT:

Author/Presenter

Tali Tal

Yael Kali

Stella Magid

Jacqueline J. Madhok

Year
2011