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The Impact of an Environmental Education Program on Knowledge and Attitude
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This paper evaluated the impact of the environmental education program NatureScope in regular classrooms where it was used as a curriculum supplement for 8 weeks and found no significant differences between groups exposed to the materials and the control groups.Abstract:
The authors evaluated the impact of the environmental education program NatureScope in regular classrooms where it was used as a curriculum supplement. Teachers used the materials in the classroom for 8 weeks. A pretest/posttest design produced few significant differences between groups exposed to the materials and the control groups.read more
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Nature and the Life Course: Pathways from Childhood Nature Experiences to Adult Environmentalism 1
Nancy M. Wells,Kristi S. Lekies +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined connections between childhood involvement with the natural environment and adult environmentalism from a life-course perspective, finding that childhood participation with nature may set an individual on a trajectory toward environmentalism.
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Nature and the Life Course: Pathways from Childhood Nature Experiences to Adult Environmentalism
Nancy Wells,Kristi S. Lekies +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined connections between childhood involvement with the natural environment and adult environmentalism from a life course perspective, and found that childhood participation with nature may set an individual on a trajectory toward environmentalism.
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The Effects of Environmental Concern on Environmentally Friendly Consumer Behavior: An Exploratory Study
Ann P. Minton,Randall L. Rose +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the relative effects of environmental concern (a general attitude) and social norms pertaining to concern for the environment on three consumer behaviors and six behavioral intentions.
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Relationship Between Environmental Knowledge and Environmental Attitude of High School Students
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assessed high school students' environmental knowledge and attitudes from a questionnaire administered before and after exposure to a 10-day environmental science course and found significant differences in both knowledge gain and attitudes of students after exposure.
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The Influence of Short-Term Outdoor Ecology Education on Long-Term Variables of Environmental Perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated empirically the ultimate goals of environmental and ecological education: fostering responsible environmental behavior, effecting long-term changes of students' attitudes toward conservation and nature, and providing basic ecological knowledge.
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The Effects of Issue Investigation and Action Training on Environmental Behavior in Seventh Grade Students
John Ramsey,Harold R. Hungerford +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the instructional effects of a formal environmental education methodology, issue investigation and action training (IIAT), on middle school students were investigated and the results showed that IIAT can improve the environmental behavior of students.
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Student attitudes toward science and sciencerelated careers: A program designed to promote a stimulating gender-free learning environment
TL;DR: In this paper, a teacher intervention program was designed to foster the full and fair participation of girls in high-school science classes, addressing obstacles, both perceived and actual, to equal participation in science classes.
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The Development and Retention of Environmental Attitudes in Elementary School Children
TL;DR: This paper investigated the effects of instruction in environmental education on the attitudes of elementary school children toward the environment and found that the experimental group had significantly improved attitudes on a pre-post basis and the same group had significant more positive attitudes towards the environment when compared with the control group.
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Effects of a Cousteau Television Special on Viewer Knowledge and Attitudes
Rosanne W. Fortner,Anne E. Lyon +1 more
TL;DR: This paper used a two-way television cable system to evaluate knowledge and attitude changes among viewers of a new Cousteau documentary and found that viewer knowledge increased significantly and remained high for two weeks.