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ClearIntegrating Sustainability Issues into Science Education through Career-Based Scenarios in the MultiCO Project
This paper describes the MultiCO project's approach to integrating sustainability topics into science education through career-based learning scenarios. It argues that connecting scientific concepts to real-world careers helps students engage meaningfully with environmental challenges.
A self‐reported instrument to measure and foster students' science connection to life with the CARE‐KNOW‐DO model and open schooling for sustainability
Researchers developed and validated a self-reported instrument to measure students' connection to science using the CARE-KNOW-DO model combined with an open schooling approach for sustainability. The study involved students working on real-world environmental problems including microplastic pollution alongside families and scientists. Evidence indicates that this approach can strengthen young people's engagement with science and sustainability topics.
Science Studies teachers’ selection of content when teaching for Sustainable Development
This paper is not about microplastics; it investigates how Swedish Science Studies teachers select content when teaching for Sustainable Development, finding that most teachers struggle to take a truly holistic approach that integrates social, economic, and environmental perspectives. The study is an education research paper with no relevance to microplastic science.
What and why in teaching about sustainability
This paper is not about microplastics; it is a science education study examining how Swedish high school teachers select and justify content when teaching sustainable development, using a pedagogical content knowledge framework.
Changing Debates and Shifting Landscapes in Science Studies: Exploring How Graduate Students with Varied Backgrounds Think About the Role of Value-Judgments in Science
This study explores how graduate students from science and science studies backgrounds engage with the role of value judgments in scientific practice, finding that interdisciplinary dialogue helped students recognise how values shape research without undermining scientific objectivity.
Qualitatively recognizing the dimensions of student environmental identity development within the classroom context
This study qualitatively identified eight dimensions of environmental identity development in elementary school students engaged in a pollution-focused science curriculum, finding that emotional responses and personal meaning emerged as distinct dimensions not previously captured in adult environmentalist research.
Fourteen-Year-Old Students’ Understanding of Problems Related to Microplastics in the Environment
Researchers assessed 14-year-old Slovenian students' understanding of microplastics in the environment, a topic absent from the national curriculum. The study found that students had limited knowledge, though performance correlated with grades in chemistry and biology, and exposure through informal or extracurricular science activities improved understanding.
Promoting Pre-Service Primary Teachers’ Development of NOSI Through Specific Immersion and Reflection
Researchers examined how pre-service primary teachers' conceptions of the nature of scientific inquiry (NOSI) evolved after a semester-long teaching module combining explicit-reflective instruction with inquiry tasks in everyday-life contexts, finding that participants entered with naive NOSI views but showed considerable improvement across most NOSI dimensions by the end of the intervention.
Science interdisciplinary learning approach: a study interdisciplinary thinking skills and literacy environment
Researchers analyzed the impact of an interdisciplinary science learning approach on prospective teachers' ability to think across disciplines and develop environmental literacy related to sustainability. Using a quasi-experimental design, they compared students who received the interdisciplinary approach with a control group. The study found that integrating multiple scientific disciplines improved both interdisciplinary thinking skills and environmental awareness among future educators.
Citizen Science as a Pedagogical Tool in Chemistry Education: Students’ Attitudes and Teachers’ Perceptions
This study explored student attitudes toward chemistry and the effects of participating in a citizen science project on those attitudes. Citizen science is highlighted as a potential tool for building chemistry literacy and environmental engagement in young students.
Citizen Science Project's Contribution to Science Learning Outcome: Systematic Literature Review
This systematic review identified 19 types of citizen science projects that contribute to science learning at school and university levels, finding that six key learning outcomes are most commonly achieved, including content knowledge and scientific inquiry skills. This study is not related to microplastics but was included due to its systematic review methodology.
School science activities with contributions from STEM practices: A study to address complex problems in elementary school classes, in the case of microplastics and their harmful effects
Researchers developed a theoretical and explanatory framework identifying which aspects of STEM education can strengthen the design of school science activities addressing complex problems such as microplastic pollution in elementary school settings. The study proposes a model for integrating STEM practices into classroom activities to build students' capacity to engage with real-world environmental challenges.
Sustainability Matters
This paper is not about microplastics; it is a longitudinal study of engineering students' evolving awareness of and engagement with sustainability issues during their studies.
Scientific Literacy to Address Sustainability: A Study on Deep-Sea Mining Education with Adolescents from a Social Care Institution
An educational intervention on deep-sea mining for adolescents in a social care institution was assessed for scientific literacy outcomes, with findings highlighting both the potential and challenges of using this emerging topic to develop sustainability-oriented environmental education.
Science Literacy Profile of High School Students: Implications of PBL Didactic Design on the Topic of Microplastics
This education research paper is not primarily about microplastic risks; it studies Indonesian high school students' scientific literacy after a problem-based learning curriculum using microplastics as a teaching topic, assessing students' ability to explain phenomena, evaluate investigations, and interpret data within the PISA framework.
Pedagogical Purposes of Scientifical and Technological Literacy within Sustainable and Green Chemistry in the High School
This paper distinguishes between environmental, sustainable, and green chemistry and discusses how these frameworks can be integrated into high school science education. Teaching students about plastic pollution and its chemical impacts is part of developing scientifically literate citizens.
High School Sustainable and Green Chemistry: Historical–Epistemological and Pedagogical Considerations
Not relevant to microplastics — this is a chemistry education paper discussing how to better integrate sustainable and green chemistry into high school curricula, tracing the history of the Science, Technology, and Society movement and advocating for systems thinking approaches.
A Study of The Attitudes and Motivations of Learning of Junior High School Students on The Technological Process in Islamic Studies
Not relevant to microplastics — this study investigates how student attitudes and motivation influence engagement with technology-assisted Islamic studies education in Indonesian junior high schools.
Student Self-Efficacy is Viewed Through Parental Involvement, Teacher Support, and Peer Support
Not relevant to microplastics — this study examines how parental involvement, teacher support, and peer support influence self-efficacy in Indonesian vocational school students using structural equation modeling.
Investigating the role of self-selected STEM projects in fostering student autonomy and self-directed learning
Researchers studied how high school students fared when allowed to choose their own sustainability-themed STEM projects, finding that student autonomy boosted intrinsic motivation but also introduced challenges around time management and curriculum alignment. The findings suggest that self-directed project learning can deepen engagement with science, though it requires careful scaffolding to support students through open-ended challenges.
A Study of Student Learning Attitudes and Motivation in Technological Processes in Learning
This paper is not about microplastics — it is a survey study examining how student attitudes and motivation shape the adoption of technology in educational settings.
STEAM Project-Based Learning Activities at the Science Museum as an Effective Training for Future Chemistry Teachers
A project-based STEAM learning methodology developed for pre-service chemistry teachers at a science museum was found effective in connecting non-formal learning environments to teacher training, enhancing engagement with scientific disciplines and pedagogical skills.
Curriculum development for student agency on sustainability issues: An exploratory study
Researchers developed an exploratory middle-school sustainability curriculum designed to foster student agency by challenging students to analyze real-world data, construct scientific arguments, and engage in activism around sustainability issues framed by the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Science-Learning Strengthening Model in Islamic Educational Institution: Case Study at MAN 1 Yogyakarta
This case study examines science education practices at an Islamic high school in Indonesia, exploring how the institution strengthens science learning outcomes. While unrelated to microplastics, science literacy is important for public understanding of environmental pollution including plastic contamination.