Natursti i naturfag på videregående skole: En studie av postene og elevenes erfaringer fra en natursti om radioaktivitet og stråling

This article explores how a nature trail can be used as an approach in science education at an uppersecondary level in Norway. The topic of the trail is radioactivity and radiation. The article illuminates obstacles and possibilities connected to the trail’s posts, how the students experience the p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elisabeth Iversen
Format: Article
Language:Danish
Published: University of Oslo 2021-02-01
Series:Nordina: Nordic Studies in Science Education
Online Access:https://journals.uio.no/nordina/article/view/6433
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Summary:This article explores how a nature trail can be used as an approach in science education at an uppersecondary level in Norway. The topic of the trail is radioactivity and radiation. The article illuminates obstacles and possibilities connected to the trail’s posts, how the students experience the posts, and what takes place during the transport between posts. This inspires how the nature trail can be redesigned. The findings point to that the assignments given in the posts are typically closed questions that to a small degree are related to phenomena at the location. Video observations show that student groups meet each other, and they help each other with the questions. The student group followed in this article, uses approximately half of the time available for walking between posts. This is regarded as unused potential for learning. The redesign is based on didactical reconsiderations consisting of seven questions that can be adapted to other contexts. The contributions of this article are knowledge and experiences concerning a nature trail in science, which is an unexplored area within the field of outdoor education pedagogy.
ISSN:1504-4556
1894-1257