Using Music and Storytelling as Strategies for Conservation Education

Given the frequently negative effects each person imposes on their environment (e.g., resource consumption, use of private and public land, and waste production), the public needs to be included in conservation messaging to sustain a healthy, functioning planet. People are generally not informed about conservation topics, which creates difficulties in creating a conservation mindset. Moreover, there is a disconnect between conservation research and presenting conservation related topics to the public in a coherent, accessible format. Thus, conservation education messaging strategies need to be evaluated to determine which are most effective. The objective of this research was to determine the effectiveness of using different strategies related to messaging format and music to teach conservation topics. Specifically, I used a 2 x 2 factorial design with messaging type (traditional lecture versus storytelling) and song inclusion (included or not) as factors and taught four sections of sixth or seventh grade students about invasive species at two different schools (n = 2 per treatment combination; 8 total sections). A pre-survey was given to the students before the lesson to determine their prior knowledge and perceptions of invasive plants. Following the pre-survey, the lesson about invasive plants was completed. Additionally, a separate survey was given to students to assess how they felt about the messaging strategy used. The surveys were analyzed to measure the effectiveness of messaging type and the use of music on student learning gains. The lecture lesson was best for the students with no prior knowledge of invasive species while learning gains were greatest with the story + song lesson for students with prior knowledge of invasive species. The students’ enjoyment of each of the lesson types did not differ, though males enjoyed all lesson types less than females. Ultimately, a combined messaging strategy approach to teaching conservation topics such as invasive plants may be most effective to student learning. My study will ultimately contribute to our understanding of how to communicate conservation messages to middle school aged children

Deprived Neighbourhoods in Transition: Divergent Pathways of Change in the Greater Manchester City-region

Many studies of neighbourhood change adopt a ‘bookend’ mode of analysis in which a baseline year is identified for a chosen outcome variable from which the magnitude of change is calculated to a determined endpoint typically over bi-decadal or decadal timeframes. However, this mode of analysis smoothes away short-run change patterns and neighbourhood dynamics. The implications of this practice could be far reaching if it is accepted that as neighbourhoods change they are liable to cross a threshold and transition from one state to another in the short- as well as longer-term. In a case study of deprived neighbourhoods in the Greater Manchester city-region, this paper aims to contribute to neighbourhood change debates in two ways. The first is by isolating transition pathways for individual neighbourhoods using annual change data. The second is by testing the thesis that the more deprived a neighbourhood is, the more likely it is to respond with greater volatility to short-run shocks when compared with less-deprived neighbourhoods. Four indicators collected annually between 2001 and 2010 are used to develop a typology of neighbourhood change and a subsequent typology of neighbourhood transition. The analysis exposed 260 different transition pathways that deprived neighbourhoods followed over the study period. Multinomial logistic regression was then used to determine the odds of a neighbourhood undergoing transition along a specific pathway owing to its level of deprivation. The model revealed that the most deprived neighbourhoods were likely to follow more volatile transition pathways compared with the less-deprived neighbourhoods especially during periods of economic difficulty. </jats:p

The creative kit: a portfolio of graphic imagery to introduce the Graphitek 430 camera/processor system to the visual communications market

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Plastics in Art

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Using Music as a Messaging Strategy for Conservation Education

Given the frequently negative effects each person imposes on their environment (e.g., resource consumption, use of private and public land, and waste production), the public needs to be included in conservation messaging to sustain a healthy, functioning planet. However, there is a disconnect between conservation research and presenting such information to the public in a coherent, accessible format. People are generally not informed about conservation topics, which creates difficulties in creating a conservation mindset. Thus, conservation education messaging strategies need to be evaluated to determine what is most effective in conveying important topics. The objective of this research is to determine the effectiveness of using different strategies related to messaging format and music to teach conservation topics. Specifically, I will use a 2 x 2 factorial design with messaging type (traditional lecture versus storytelling) and song inclusion (included or not) as factors. Following Institutional Review Board Approval, I will use each combination of strategies (4 combinations total) to teach sixth or seventh grade students about invasive species at three different schools (n = 3 per treatment combination). A pre-survey will be given to the students before the lesson is given to determine their prior knowledge of the conservation topic of invasive plants. Following the pre-survey, the lesson about invasive plants will be completed. A post-survey will then be provided to determine how much knowledge about invasive plants has been gained during the lesson. The surveys will be analyzed to measure the effectiveness of messaging type and the use of music on student learning and ultimately will contribute to our better understanding of how to communicate conservation messages to middle school aged children

Coryndon Memorial museum expedition to the chyulu hills- IX. Dermaptera

Volume: XVI

Alien Registration- Hincks, Jessie (Portland, Cumberland County)

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