Open AccessThe effect of an enrichment unit on climate change awareness and basic science process skills among gifted female primary school students
Author(s) -
Fatema Saeed Sanad,
Fatima Ahmed AL-Jasim,
Huda Soud Al-Hendal
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of childhood, counselling and special education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2709-5843
pISSN - 2709-5835
DOI - 10.31559/ccse2021.3.1.3
Subject(s) - psychology , scale (ratio) , mathematics education , curriculum , wilcoxon signed rank test , unit (ring theory) , test (biology) , climate change , treatment and control groups , pedagogy , ecology , geography , mathematics , cartography , statistics , biology
This study investigated how introducing climate change-themed lessons into the curriculum of gifted primary school females in Bahrain affected Climate Change Awareness and Basic Science Process Skills. Students included Students included 40 gifted sixth grade females divided into two groups: a 20-student experimental group and a 20-student control group. Basic Science Process Skills Activities and Climate Change Awareness Scale were used as the pre- and post-test to measure the science skills and climate change awareness among both groups. The experimental group received the enrichment unit. The Mann-Whitney & Wilcoxon tests showed that Significant differences emerged between experimental and control groups on the climate change awareness scale, but not in the behavioral domain of the scale. Possible explanations are included.