01947nam a22002537a 4500003000400000005001700004008004100021022001400062040000900076082002400085100001900109130003600128245017500164300001200339336000900351337001500360338001100375440002100386500121200407650001101619650002301630700002001653700002001673OSt20241028105543.0241028b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a0021-9266  cDSSC  aPer 620.8 H894 2016  aHung-Shan, Lee  aJournal of Biological Education  aSharks in your hands: A case study on effects of teaching strategies to change knowledge and attitudes towards sharkscby Hung-Shan Lee, Shiang-Yao Liu and Ting-Kuang Yeh  a345-357  atext  aunmediated  avolume  v50(3)x0021-9266  aThis study was designed to exemplify how hands-on based teaching strategies enhanced students' knowledge and positive attitudes towards sharks. Hands-on activities for sharks' biological and morphological features were carried out. Eleven elementary school students from a remote area in Taiwan were recruited and assigned to the hands-on condition. They were encouraged to draw pictures of sharks before and after the instruction as the main data for pre- and post-test comparison. Two years later, the retention test and attitude inventory towards sharks were implemented. The results revealed that large effect size emerged for both the post-test and retention test. In regards to attitude inventory, students involved in hands-on activities also significantly outperformed the baseline group. Many of them have taken notice of television programs and books about sharks or marine ecology since the hands-on activities, indicating the instruction had a beneficial impact on their extracurricular lives. Empirical findings of this study suggest hands-on instruction is a powerful strategy for learning, both for immediate and prolonged effects on improving students' knowledge and attitudes toward sharks. 0aSharks 0aMarine environment  aLiu, Shiang-Yao  aYeh, Ting-Kuang