Teaching Air Pollution in an Authentic Context

Autor/inn/en	Mandrikas, Achilleas; Stavrou, Dimitrios; Skordoulis, Constantine
Titel	Teaching Air Pollution in an Authentic Context
Quelle	In: Journal of Science Education and Technology, 26 (2017) 2, S.238-251 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1059-0145
DOI	10.1007/s10956-016-9675-8
Schlagwörter	Pollution; Preservice Teachers; Elementary School Teachers; Foreign Countries; Topography; Weather; Undergraduate Students; Meteorology; Internet; Maps; Science Education; Greece (Athens) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schadstoffbelastung; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Ausland; Topografie; Wetter; Meteorologie; Map; Karte; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung
Abstract	This paper describes a teaching-learning sequence (TLS) about air pollution and the findings resulting from its implementation by pre-service elementary teachers (PET) currently undergraduate students of the Department of Primary Education in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. The TLS focused on the relation of air pollution with wind and topography in local conditions. An authentic context was provided to the students based on daily up-to-date meteorological data via the Internet in order to estimate air pollution. The results are encouraging given that PET can correlate wind and concentration of air pollutants through reading specialized angular diagrams and weather maps, can recognize the correlation of topography in the concentration of air pollutants, and can describe temperature inversion. However, the PET demonstrated clear difficulties in ability of orientation, in wind naming, and in interpretation of symbols on weather map. Finally, the implications on teaching air pollution are discussed. (As Provided).
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