2020
DOI: 10.1002/ckon.201800093
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Following the Pathways of Plastic Litter – An international Citizen Science project for promoting K12 students’ scientific literacy

Abstract: Zusammenfassung: In dem Citizen-Science-Projekt "Dem Plastikmüll auf der Spur" wurden Schülerinnen und Schüler gemeinsam mit ihren Lehrkräften in eine wissenschaftliche Untersuchung zur Erhebung von Mülldaten an deutschen und chilenischen Stränden eingebunden. Durch das Projekt wurden zum einen wissenschaftliche Daten erhoben, zum anderen wurde bei den Teilnehmenden das Verständnis des naturwissenschaftlichen Prozesses gefçrdert sowie ein Umdenken im eigenen Handeln antizipiert. Angeleitet durch ein Begleitbuc… Show more

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“…Looking at the volunteering literature more broadly, citizen science initiatives have a great potential to benefit individuals' physical and mental health. Insights from the behavioural sciences show that if individuals enjoy an activity, understand the problems and associated solutions, have a sense of agency, and have a positive attitude towards a socio-environmental issue, they are more likely to continue that activity (i.e., increasing retention of volunteers) and engage in related behaviours (e.g., perform other pro-environmental behaviours; see Gifford and Nilsson, 2014;Kruse et al, 2020b;Oturai et al, 2022). Thus, assessing and understanding if or how these initiatives could affect behaviour would help maximize retention of participants within the initiative itself; increase experience and knowledge among the citizen scientists, further improving the quality of the data collected; and could have a broader impact by encouraging pro-environmental behaviours in other contexts.…”
Section: Aspects Related To the Citizen Scientistsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Looking at the volunteering literature more broadly, citizen science initiatives have a great potential to benefit individuals' physical and mental health. Insights from the behavioural sciences show that if individuals enjoy an activity, understand the problems and associated solutions, have a sense of agency, and have a positive attitude towards a socio-environmental issue, they are more likely to continue that activity (i.e., increasing retention of volunteers) and engage in related behaviours (e.g., perform other pro-environmental behaviours; see Gifford and Nilsson, 2014;Kruse et al, 2020b;Oturai et al, 2022). Thus, assessing and understanding if or how these initiatives could affect behaviour would help maximize retention of participants within the initiative itself; increase experience and knowledge among the citizen scientists, further improving the quality of the data collected; and could have a broader impact by encouraging pro-environmental behaviours in other contexts.…”
Section: Aspects Related To the Citizen Scientistsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Since educational goals are moving more and more into focus, several project-related learning opportunities and activities have been reported. For example, through the design and performance of experiments citizens are supposed to gain deeper project-related scientific insights (Kruse et al, 2020). Herodotou et al (2018) designed citizen science tools to support inquiry learning through digital platforms and offered a set of guidelines to support learning in citizen science projects: For example, tools should enable users to conduct their own investigations.…”
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confidence: 99%