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Instructional design pattern: a school-based CCS project enacting the full data lifecycle with youth-led decisions

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Description

The study's program design builds on the CCS education framework and aligns its phases with the data lifecycle: developing expertise through bird-identification lessons; defining research questions in the after-school Ornithology Club (50 min weekly); designing an observation protocol with student-chosen tools; interpreting and evaluating data; making decisions and taking action, funded by a school-garden grant for a Bird Sanctuary; submitting data to eBird and presenting to audiences; and evaluating outcomes and reassessing goals.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Educators need funding mechanisms (the grant), tools available to students, and regular meeting time to support all lifecycle stages

Constraints

  • Ten of sixteen club attendees were focal participants with varying attendance frequency

Target Learners

  • 4th and 5th grade students

Learning Goals

  • developing science expertise
  • data collection and interpretation
  • environmental decision-making

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Erin Bridges Bird · Heidi L. Ballard · Margaret Harte. (2023). Data to decision-making: how elementary students use their Community and Citizen Science project to reimagine their school campus. Instructional Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-022-09612-6
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title Instructional design pattern: a school-based CCS project enacting the full data lifecycle with youth-led decisions
description The study's program design builds on the CCS education framework and aligns its phases with the data lifecycle: developing expertise through bird-identification lessons; defining research questions in the after-school...
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