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Validity and worth in the science curriculum: learning school science outside the laboratory [PDF]

, 2006
It is widely acknowledged that there are problems with school science in many developed countries of the world. Such problems manifest themselves in a progressive decline in pupil enthusiasm for school science across the secondary age range and the fact ...
Amos R., Anderson D., Bebbington A., Black G., Borrows P., Braund M., Cerini B., DfES (Department for Education and Skills), Driver R., Falk J. H., Falk J. H., Goodrum D., Gräber W., Haste H., Hodson D., Jarman R., Johnson S., Lee S., Macdonald S., Martin Braund, Michael Reiss, Millar R., Miller J., Mortimer E. F., Parvin J., Popli R., Price S., Reiss M. J., Reiss M. J., Roth W.-M., Shamos M. H., Sjøberg S., Swinbank L., Wellington J., Woolnough B.   +34 more
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Zoo

POIÉSIS, 2018
O artigo propõe uma reflexão sobre a videoinstalação performática ZOO, apresentada no Festival Internacional de Arte e Tecnologia F.A.S.E, realizado no Centro Cultural Recoleta, em Buenos Aires, Argentina, em 2013. O trabalho consiste de uma projeção de vídeo sobre uma instalação construída com caixas de arquivo que são movimentadas pelos artistas ...
openaire   +4 more sources

The Effect of Regulating Zoo Visitor-Penguin Interactions on Zoo Visitor Attitudes

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
Understanding visitor attitudes toward zoo animals can inform the way zoos manage visitor-animal interactions by identifying the factors that may influence visitors and the way visitors interact with animals.
Samantha J. Chiew, Paul H. Hemsworth, Sally L. Sherwen, Vicky Melfi, Grahame J. Coleman   +4 more
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Animal Welfare Assessment in 16 Zoos in South Korea Using the Modified Animal Welfare Assessment Grid

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022
Various assessment tools that have been proposed thus far have disadvantages in that they are complex, time-consuming, non-objective, and not convenient for assessing multiple zoos.
Seung-Aee Ma, Hye-Jin Kang, Kyuyoung Lee, Sun-A. Kim, Jin Soo Han   +4 more
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Mobile Zoos and Other Itinerant Animal Handling Events: Current Status and Recommendations for Future Policies

Animals, 2023
Mobile zoos are events in which non-domesticated (exotic) and domesticated species are transported to venues such as schools, hospitals, parties, and community centres, for the purposes of education, entertainment, or social and therapeutic assistance ...
Clifford Warwick, Anthony Pilny, Catrina Steedman, Tiffani Howell, Albert Martínez-Silvestre, Vanessa Cadenas, Rachel Grant   +6 more
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Elephant (Research) Routes

Humanimalia
Placing the special issue within the historiography of human-elephant relationships, the introduction addresses the challenges associated with the integration of elephants into academic narratives. It pays special attention to the epistemological and
Violette Pouillard, Marianna Szczygielska   +1 more
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Effects of Regulating Visitor Viewing Proximity and the Intensity of Visitor Behaviour on Little Penguin (Eudyptula minor) Behaviour and Welfare

Animals, 2019
We examined the effects of regulating the viewing proximity of visitors and the intensity of visitor behaviour on behaviours indicative of fear and stress physiology of 15 zoo-housed little penguins (Eudyptula minor).
Samantha J. Chiew, Kym L. Butler, Sally L. Sherwen, Grahame J. Coleman, Kerry V. Fanson, Paul H. Hemsworth   +5 more
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The Elephant Trunk Skin Inspires a Highly Sensitive and Deformable, Yet Robust, Armor Skin

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The study presents the elephant trunk‐inspired armor skin with tactile sensing (ETATS). The ETATS architecture stretches and compresses while resisting puncture and tear, and it enables optical detection of pressure and lateral strain. Morphology‐based decoupling of strain and pressure paves the way to sensitive and deformable, yet robust, soft‐robotic
Jun Chang Yang, Petr Trunin, Behnam Kamare, Lucia Beccai   +3 more
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The welfare problems of wide-ranging Carnivora reflect naturally itinerant lifestyles

Royal Society Open Science, 2023
Carnivora with naturally small home ranges readily adjust to the evolutionarily new environment of captivity, but wider-ranging species seem prone to stress. Understanding why would advance both collection planning and enclosure design.
Miranda Bandeli, Emma L. Mellor, Jeanette Kroshko, Hafiz Maherali, Georgia J. Mason   +4 more
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How One California Aquarium is Developing an Ocean Conservation Strategy with Global Impact [PDF]

, 2018
This article discusses the ways in which the Monterey Bay Aquarium is pursuing its mission “to inspire conservation of the ocean”—including and beyond its visitor programs and education initiatives.
Spring, Margaret
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