Outdoor Science: Attitudes & Achievement

 

 

(A graphic of a literature map on this topic can be obtained by emailing bflywriter@comcast.net. )

 

Limiting the literature review for the pilot study helps to see more clearly the focus on studying

 

environmental topics in science outdoors. Relatively little has been researched to date on student

 

attitude and achievement in this field. Two works each deserve individual categories. There is one

 

seminal work on achievement (Cronin-Jones 2002). In the field of environmental science, the seminal

 

 work is Louv (2005). Louv’s book is the work that garnered the attention of the environmental

 

education community, the science education community, and to some extent the general public.

 

 

 

Bibliography

Cronin-Jones, L. (2000). The effectiveness   of schoolyards as sites for elementary science

   instruction.  School Science & Mathematics, 100, 203-212.

 

Louv, R. (2005).  Last child in the woods, Chapel Hill, N.C., Algonquin Books.

Hilson, M. P. & Trundle, K. C. (2012) Shadow Play: Linking shadows to learning about seasons.

     Science & Children, 49(5), 31-35.

Marcum-Dietrich, N., Marquez, L., Gill, S. E., & Medved, C. (2011). No teacher left inside:

     preparing a new generation of teachers. Geoscience Education, 59(1), 1-4.

Nelson, A. (2010). Environmental education & ecology in a life science course for preservice K-8

     teachers using project wildlife in learning design. The American Biology Teacher, 72(3), 156-

     160. doi:10.1525/abt.2010.72.3.6