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What Is the Impact of the Impact Monster? Evaluating Environmental Education Programs (Spanish)
One job of wilderness managers is to teach people how to behave when they visit a wilderness area. One of the ways students learn about how to behave when they visit a wilderness area is through a special skit. The skit is called the Impact Monster Skit. The scientists in this study wanted to evaluate the effectiveness of the Impact Monster Skit.
This is the Spanish-language version of the article.
What Is the Impact of the Impact Monster? Evaluating Environmental Education Programs (Spanish)
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In this FACTivity, you will conduct your own evaluation of an educational resource – a Natural Inquirer (or Investi-gator) article! You will tabulate the results of your survey and create...FACTivity – What Is the Impact of the Impact Monster? (Spanish)
In this FACTivity, you will conduct your own evaluation of an educational resource – a Natural Inquirer (or Investi-gator) article! You will tabulate the results of your survey and create...
Glossary
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(ǝ sō sē ā tǝd): Related, connected, or combined together.
backpack
(bak pak): (verb) To hike with a backpack (usually carrying food, water, and other equipment).
biodiversity
(bī ō dǝ vǝr sǝ tē ): Biological variety in an environment as indicated by numbers of different species of plants and animals.
ecosystem
(ē kō sis tǝm): A system made up of an ecological community of living things interacting with their environment especially under natural conditions.
endangered species
(in dān jǝrd spē sēz): A plant or animals with so few individual survivors that the species could become extinct in the area where it naturally lives.
facility
(fə si lə tē): Something (such as a hospital) that is built, installed, or established to serve a particular purpose.
legal
(lē gəl): Relating to law.
survey
(sǝr vā): A questioning or canvassing of persons selected at random or by quota to obtain information or opinions to be analyzed.
wilderness manager
(wil dər nəs ma ni jər): A skilled individual who manages a wilderness area.
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Standards addressed in this Article:
Social Studies Standards
- Civic Ideals and Practices
- Culture
- People, Places, and Environments
- Time, Continuity, and Change
Note To Educators
The Forest Service's Mission
The Forest Service’s mission is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the Nation’s forests and grasslands to meet the needs of present and future generations. For more than 100 years, our motto has been “caring for the land and serving people.” The Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), recognizes its responsibility to be engaged in efforts to connect youth to nature and to promote the development of science-based conservation education programs and materials nationwide.
What Is the Natural Inquirer?
Natural Inquirer is a science education resource journal to be used by students in grade 6 and up. Natural Inquirer contains articles describing environmental and natural resource research conducted by Forest Service scientists and their cooperators. These scientific journal articles have been reformatted to meet the needs of middle school students. The articles are easy to understand, are aesthetically pleasing to the eye, contain glossaries, and include hands-on activities. The goal of Natural Inquirer is to stimulate critical reading and thinking about scientific inquiry and investigation while teaching about ecology, the natural environment, and natural resources.
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Meet the Scientists
Introduces students to the scientists who did the research. This section may be used in a discussion about careers in science.
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What Kinds of Scientist Did This Research?
Introduces students to the scientific disciplines of the scientists who conducted the research.
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Thinking About Science
Introduces something new about the scientific process, such as a scientific habit of mind or procedures used in scientific studies.
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Thinking About the Environment
Introduces the environmental topic being addressed in the research.
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Introduction
Introduces the problem or question that the research addresses.
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Method
Describes the method the scientists used to collect and analyze their data.
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Findings & Discussion
Describes the results of the analysis. Addresses the findings and places them into the context of the original problem or question.
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Reflection Section
Presents questions aimed at stimulating critical thinking about what has been read or predicting what might be presented in the next section. These questions are placed at the end of each of the main article sections.
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Number Crunches
Presents an easy math problem related to the research.
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Glossary
Defines potentially new scientific or other terms to students. The first occurrence of a glossary word is bold in the text.
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Citation
Gives the original article citation with an internet link to the original article.
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FACTivity
Presents a hands-on activity that emphasizes something presented in the article.
Science Education Standards
You will find a listing of education standards which are addressed by each article at the back of each publication and on our website.
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