Professional Development in Environmental Health for Middle School Science Teachers: A Pathway to STEM-Health Integration
Andreia Figueiredo Dexheimer,
Jennifer L. Zuercher,
Carol E. Colaninno
et al.
Abstract:Despite a growing public awareness of and concern for the link between environmental pollution and human health risks, there is a relative dearth of research on teacher perceptions of including environmental health topics in K-12 classrooms. We examined the impact of an environmental health-focused professional development (PD) program on middle school teachers. We used a concurrent nested mixed methods approach to measure teachers' pre-/post-perceptions of environmental health science concepts and their integ… Show more
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