| Schoolyard Ecology Education Program
| Using the schoolyard as
a living laboratory to learn about scientific research |
The simple methods of Schoolyard Ecology, created
by the Audubon Program for Latin America and the Caribbean, have
been successfully used to train elementary and high school teachers
on topics of scientific research and the scientific method so as
to share this information with their students.
Nearly every educational center has green spaces
available where an attentive observer can discover the diversity
of nature and the same natural phenomena, animal behavior, and environmental
impacts that might be observed in large wild areas such as national
parks. It is undoubtedly a living laboratory where students and
teachers can learn the scientific method through observation, the
construction of a scientific question, experimentation, the gathering
of information, and finally reflection and the formulation of conclusions.
So far in Loja, over 100 elementary and secondary
education teachers and well over 1000 students have been trained
in this methodology.
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