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Document type
Journal articles

Document subtype
Full paper

Title
Following Darwin’s footsteps: Evaluating the impact of an activity designed for elementary school students to link historically important evolution key concepts on their understanding of natural selection

Participants in the publication
Xana Sá-Pinto (Author)
Alexandre Pinto (Author)
Joana Ribeiro (Author)
Inês Sarmento (Author)
Patrícia Pessoa (Author)
Leonor R. Rodrigues (Author)
Dep. Biologia Animal
 Unidade de I&D e Inovação
 cE3c
 Lucía Vázquez-Ben (Author)
Evangelia Mavrikaki (Author)
Joaquim Bernardino Lopes (Author)

Summary
While several researchers have suggested that evolution should be explored from the initial years of schooling, little information is available on effective resources to enhance elementary school students’ level of understanding of evolution by natural selection (LUENS). For the present study, we designed, implemented, and evaluated an educational activity planned for fourth graders (9 to 10 years old) to explore concepts and conceptual fields that were historically important for the discovery of natural selection. Observation field notes and students’ productions were used to analyze how the students explored the proposed activity. Additionally, an evaluation framework consisting of a test, the evaluation criteria, and the scoring process was applied in two fourth-grade classes (N = 44) to estimate elementary school students’ LUENS before and after engaging in the activity. Our results show that our activity allowed students to link the key concepts, resulting in a significant increase of their understanding of natural selection. They also reveal that additional activities and minor fine-tuning of the present activity are required to further support students’ learning about the concept of differential reproduction.

Date of Publication
2021-08-25

Where published
Ecology and Evolution

Publication Identifiers
ISSN - 2045-7758

Publisher
Wiley

Volume
11
Number
18

Number of pages
15
Starting page
12236
Last page
12250

Document Identifiers
DOI - https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7849
URL - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7849

Rankings
SCIMAGO Q1 (2021) - 0,98 - Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
SCOPUS Q1 (2021) - 4.4 - Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Web Of Science Q2 (2021) - 3.167 - ECOLOGY - SCIE


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APA
Xana Sá-Pinto, Alexandre Pinto, Joana Ribeiro, Inês Sarmento, Patrícia Pessoa, Leonor R. Rodrigues, Lucía Vázquez-Ben, Evangelia Mavrikaki, Joaquim Bernardino Lopes, (2021). Following Darwin’s footsteps: Evaluating the impact of an activity designed for elementary school students to link historically important evolution key concepts on their understanding of natural selection. Ecology and Evolution, 11, 12236-12250. ISSN 2045-7758. eISSN . http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7849

IEEE
Xana Sá-Pinto, Alexandre Pinto, Joana Ribeiro, Inês Sarmento, Patrícia Pessoa, Leonor R. Rodrigues, Lucía Vázquez-Ben, Evangelia Mavrikaki, Joaquim Bernardino Lopes, "Following Darwin’s footsteps: Evaluating the impact of an activity designed for elementary school students to link historically important evolution key concepts on their understanding of natural selection" in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 11, pp. 12236-12250, 2021. 10.1002/ece3.7849

BIBTEX
@article{54573, author = {Xana Sá-Pinto and Alexandre Pinto and Joana Ribeiro and Inês Sarmento and Patrícia Pessoa and Leonor R. Rodrigues and Lucía Vázquez-Ben and Evangelia Mavrikaki and Joaquim Bernardino Lopes}, title = {Following Darwin’s footsteps: Evaluating the impact of an activity designed for elementary school students to link historically important evolution key concepts on their understanding of natural selection}, journal = {Ecology and Evolution}, year = 2021, pages = {12236-12250}, volume = 11 }