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Emotion and learning in children attending summer science camp
Description
With the overall health of the environment rapidly declining \u2014 mostly due to human behaviors, solving the problem of nature deficit disorder and getting more children interested and aware of nature could be paramount to improving the environmental health of our planet. In this study, the relationship between children's learning and emotion is explored. Pre- and post-tests were given to children attending a week-long summer freshwater ecology camp; their knowledge of and emotional connection to different ecological concepts were measured. Two separate ecosystems were tested \u2014 a freshwater ecosystem that was taught over the course of the week, and a marine ecosystem for comparison. Increases in knowledge and emotion were seen in every freshwater ecosystem concept. Additionally, the knowledge and emotion scores were correlated, suggesting a positive relationship between them. The marine ecosystem did not show improvements in concrete knowledge, but showed increases in abstract learning, indicating that the abstract concepts learned about the freshwater ecosystem were able to transfer to the marine. Overall results show the ability of a hands-on learning experience to foster an emotional connection between a child and the subject matter. However, long-term studies are needed to track the relationship between children and their knowledge of and emotional connection to the subject matter.
Date Created
2013-05
Contributors
- Mossler, Max Vaughn (Author)
- Pearson, David (Thesis director)
- Smith, Andrew (Committee member)
- Berkowitz, Alan (Committee member)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
- School of Sustainability (Contributor)
- School of Life Sciences (Contributor)
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Extent
35 pages
Language
eng
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In Copyright
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Series
Academic Year 2012-2013
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.17017
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minimal
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