Development of an Energy Education Curriculum Guide and the Evaluation of Teachers' Perceptions of the Effectiveness of This Guide
Abstract
A preliminary needs assessment was conducted in the Fall of 1991, regarding the general public's knowledge of the basic concepts involved in the production and use of energy. The results of this needs assessment, along with the results of an extensive review of the literature, gave impetus to the development of an Energy Education Curriculum Guide for use with upper-elementary classrooms, entitled Energy: A Cross-Curricular Approach. Training sessions, three hours in length, were presented to the teachers who were targeted, by grant specifications, to use this curriculum. Survey instruments designed to obtain descriptive data on teacher's perceptions of the effectiveness of both the curriculum guide, and the teacher trainings, were developed, distributed, and analyzed.
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