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ClearProfessional Development in Environmental Health for Middle School Science Teachers: A Pathway to STEM-Health Integration
This study evaluated a professional development program for middle school science teachers on environmental health topics, finding it improved teacher confidence and willingness to integrate environmental health into STEM education.
Integrating 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 New Situation Analysis in Environmental Literacy: Microplastic Waste Awareness
Researchers compared microplastic awareness levels among pre-service teachers from different disciplines at a Turkish university using a standardised awareness test. Awareness varied significantly by subject area, with science-related fields scoring higher, highlighting the need for improved environmental literacy education across disciplines.
Ocean Literacy’s Influence on Integrated Learning: Teachers’ Understanding and Involvement
Researchers investigated ocean literacy integration in Indonesian junior high school education, surveying 116 teachers to examine how their understanding of ocean literacy and participation in related training influenced their inclination toward integrated teaching approaches.
Exploring the Intersection of Paleontology and Sustainability: Enhancing Scientific Literacy in Spanish Secondary School Students
This study assessed geology and sustainability knowledge among 14-15-year-old students in Spain and tested whether active experiential learning approaches, including integration of Earth history and sustainable development goals, improved scientific literacy. Experimental groups showed improved academic performance compared to controls.
Systematic literature review: a typology of Sustainability Literacy and Environmental Literacy
This systematic literature review develops a typology of sustainability literacy and environmental education frameworks, mapping how different educational approaches define and measure student competencies related to ecological awareness and sustainable behavior.
Engaging Latinx students in scientific inquiry and metacognition through an interdisciplinary summer program
Researchers examined the impact of an interdisciplinary informal STEM summer program on Latinx high school students, finding that authentic inquiry experiences enhanced science and engineering practice skills, positively shaped attitudes toward STEM including environmental science topics such as microplastic research, and facilitated metacognitive transfer to formal learning settings.
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.
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.
Learning Effects of Augmented Reality and Game-Based Learning for Science Teaching in Higher Education in the Context of Education for Sustainable Development
Researchers tested an augmented reality game-based learning environment called 'Beat the Beast' to teach university students about microplastics across biology, chemistry, and engineering disciplines. A study of 203 pre-service teachers compared settings with and without augmented reality and game elements to measure effects on motivation, knowledge, and sustainability outcomes. The findings contribute to understanding how emerging educational technologies can support interdisciplinary science teaching about environmental topics.
Enhancing teacher competence through collaborative worksheet development: an empirical investigation
Researchers examined the efficacy of collaborative teaching using a project-based learning worksheet on plastic waste and climate change, involving five science teachers, two lecturers, and 45 seventh-grade students across three field trials. They found that collaborative worksheet development increased science teachers' professionalism, particularly in the collegial phase, while also improving student engagement with environmental topics.
Web-Based Module on Biotechnology: Fostering Preservice Science Teachers’ Eco-literacy Skills
This study developed a web-based module on biotechnology to foster eco-literacy skills among preservice science teachers in the Philippines. Assessment showed that the module improved students' understanding of environmental biotechnology applications and their ability to integrate eco-literacy perspectives into science teaching.
Strategies for Enhancing the Practical and Innovative Abilities of Environmental Major Students
Researchers examined how industry-university-research-application platforms, innovation training programs, and subject competitions contribute to practical and innovative ability development among environmental science students at Zhaoqing University, finding these mechanisms effective at fostering self-directed skill cultivation.
Effect of Design Thinking to Develop Marine and Coastal Environmental Attitudes
This paper is not relevant to microplastics research — it evaluates a design thinking educational approach for improving marine and coastal environmental awareness among students, focused on teaching sustainability concepts.
Academic Literacy Supporting Sustainability for Mathematics Education—A Case: Collaborative Working as a Meaning Making for “2/3”?
This case study examines collaborative mathematics education as a tool for building academic literacy in support of sustainability goals. The paper discusses how group problem-solving around mathematical concepts can foster sustainable thinking in students.
What are the valuable lessons from global research on environmental literacy in the last two decades? A systematic literature review
This paper is not about microplastics; it is a systematic literature review of global research on environmental literacy in education over the past two decades, analyzing publication trends and teaching approaches.
Integration of the Humanities, Science, and Engineering Aspects of an Undergraduate Engineering Research Experience
This paper integrated humanities, science, and engineering perspectives in an undergraduate research experience focused on water treatment, including sustainable separation processes applicable to drinking water, industrial wastewater, and hazardous waste remediation. The interdisciplinary curriculum aimed to prepare students for addressing complex environmental challenges.
Education for Sustainable Development Oriented Didactic Design in A Bioplastic Context in Overcoming Barriers to Learning and Developing Attitude and Environmental Awareness
Researchers designed and evaluated a bioplastic curriculum using Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) principles, finding that hands-on bioplastic-making activities improved student understanding of sustainability concepts. The didactic design demonstrates how materials science and environmental education can be integrated in classroom settings.
Scientific literacy through Problem-Based Learning focusing on the occurrence and consequences of microplastics in the environment
Researchers implemented a Problem-Based Learning approach to develop scientific literacy skills in students by focusing on the occurrence and environmental consequences of microplastics. The study, conducted in a Portuguese-language educational context, used microplastics as a real-world science topic to cultivate critical thinking and evidence-based decision-making competencies.
Educating for environmental transition: the summer school on microplastics
Researchers developed a summer school curriculum on micro- and nanoplastics to train students at the intersection of environmental science, toxicology, and sustainability. The program used MNPs as a case study for interdisciplinary education about complex environmental challenges requiring both scientific and policy responses.
Sustainability in K-12 education: how can schools support students to address challenges of environmental sustainability?
This action research study examines how K-12 schools can promote environmental sustainability, finding that successful programs combine student education, school-wide practices, and community engagement to reduce environmental impact.
Do future teachers’ sustainability commitments really relate to action-oriented educational approaches?
Researchers analyzed educational proposals designed by 130 future secondary school teachers addressing the socioecological problem of microplastic pollution, examining the relationship between teachers' own sustainability perceptions and their selection of action-oriented educational approaches through mixed qualitative and quantitative methods.
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.
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.