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A DeFelice, JD Adams, B Branco… - Journal of Geoscience …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis

Engaging underrepresented high school students in an urban environmental and geoscience place-based curriculum.

Geoscience Opportunities for Leadership in Diversity AND Program Evaluation

Adams, Branco

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High school students in a large urban area, undergraduate students, and geoscience faculty at a local college used a place-based pedagogical approach to engage in real geoscience problem-based inquiry in a local urban park. The overarching goals of this project were to learn the potential of place-based geoscience research experiences to: influence students' science identities and increase participation of urban youth in science. Student researchers participating in the activity (N= 22) completed Likert-scale pre-and post-surveys, which were …

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