Befriending Bumblebees through hands-on activities in biology classes: Living Bumblebees lead to lasting knowledge and provide high learning enjoyment

Sieg, Anne-Kathrin

doi:10.1080/00219266.2022.2118351

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“…Rhein-Main" (English: 'Help Bumblebees within the Rhine-Main metropolitan area') started at schools located in the Rhine-Main metropolitan area in Germany. As shown in a preceding project, bumblebees are a well-known and positively perceived genus; they are suitable flagship species for wild bees in general [21,22]. The major objective of the project is that students develop a positive attitude toward, as well as a comprehensive knowledge about, wild bees, in order to encourage their pro-environmental behavior and active engagement with biodiversity issues.…”

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Be(e) Engaged! How Students Benefit from an Educational Citizen Science Project on Biodiversity in Their Biology Classes

2022

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Citizen Science initiatives and their underlying concepts play an increasingly important role in getting the public interested in science and current scientific topics—one more reason to include Citizen Science in the school context. We develop a teaching concept with the aim of raising students’ awareness of the importance of wild-bee biodiversity by involving them in scientific investigations. By addressing the issue, we hope to change student’s attitudes towards wild bees as represented by common native bumblebees and encourage them to participate in pro-environmental behavior (PEB). A total sample size of 437 German high-school students from grades five to seven participated in the project. We examine students’ knowledge about bumblebees and insect decline, students’ attitude toward wild bees, and their PEB intentions before and after the project. Learning enjoyment is also measured in the post-test. Our results show that students’ knowledge increases and they positively change their attitudes toward wild bees by participating in a Citizen Science project. Furthermore, we show that although knowledge and attitude significantly correlate with PEB intentions, no strong difference between pre- and post-tests can be observed.

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Be(e) Engaged! How Students Benefit from an Educational Citizen Science Project on Biodiversity in Their Biology Classes

2022

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“…As science education should generally help students learn science content and help them to understand the creation of scientific knowledge (Rudolph, 2020), practical work in science education is regarded as essential to encourage students' participation and the development of knowledge and skills (Moore et al, 2020). Earlier studies conducted in science classes already established that both field trips to real local ecosystems and hands-on materials in school settings equally influence students' learning motivation positively and provide them consequently with high learning gains (Albedyll et al, 2017; Sieg & Dreesmann, 2022).…”

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Ecology Lessons 2.0 – A Wireless Approach

Becker,

Dreesmann

2024

The American Biology Teacher

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This case study examines students’ perception, motivation, and learning gain of a teaching unit featuring wireless sensors as tools to collect scientific data in the classroom. Students analyze data using the corresponding cellphone app, communicate findings to the class, and learn about a changing environment. Wireless sensors are produced for technology-based science lessons and are therefore suitable for our teaching unit to implement into the secondary school curriculum in the context of ecology. We aimed for very simple experimental setups in order to put the focus on handling the modern technical equipment, to make analyzing and learning from the collected data a priority, and to reduce expenses for teachers on busy schooldays. We validated the approach in German school settings with 67 students aged between 16 and 19 years. We found that our practical approach not only leads to high learning gains combined with learning enjoyment, a feeling of competence, and little perceived pressure but also improves students’ understanding of scientific data.

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Connecting plant science education in undergraduate life science courses to plant awareness disparity, Vision and Change , and sustainability careers

Zhu,

Parsley,

Griscom

et al. 2024

Journal of Biological Education

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Befriending Bumblebees through hands-on activities in biology classes: Living Bumblebees lead to lasting knowledge and provide high learning enjoyment

Cited by 4 publications

References 27 publications

Be(e) Engaged! How Students Benefit from an Educational Citizen Science Project on Biodiversity in Their Biology Classes

Be(e) Engaged! How Students Benefit from an Educational Citizen Science Project on Biodiversity in Their Biology Classes

Ecology Lessons 2.0 – A Wireless Approach

Connecting plant science education in undergraduate life science courses to plant awareness disparity, Vision and Change , and sustainability careers

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