Enhancing student scientific literacy through participation in citizen science focused on companion animal behavior.

ABSTRACT: The Covid-19 pandemic served as the impetus to implement activities designed to engage students in the remote instructional environment while simultaneously developing scientific literacy skills. In a high enrollment general education animal science course, numerous activities were designed to improve scientific literacy. These included specifically developed videos covering strategies for reading published science literature, the utilization of topically relevant scientific articles that captured student interest, and engaging students in a citizen science exercise on whether dogs align themselves to the Earth's magnetic field during excretion behavior. Employing pre- and post-self-perception surveys coupled with tasking students to apply their scientific literacy skills in an assessment

SUBMITTER: Oberbauer AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8385872 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature