Group #2: Sonia Sheryr and Jaiden DeBoe
General Project Theme: Water Education
Project Idea #1: How does the type of classroom activity influence student engagement regarding water conservation.
Proposed Research Question: How does passive vs. active learning strategies effect student engagement on water conservation education?
Proposed Hypothesis: When active learning strategies are used for water conservation education, students are more likely to pay attention and participate.
Keywords: Education, Student engagement, Active learning, Water conservation
Found Review Articles: “Alternatives to ‘Chalk and Talk’: Active Vs. Passive Learning – A Literature Review of the Debate”
Found Research Articles:
“Where’s the evidence that active learning works?”
Found SciComm Articles:
“Millions of Views, But Does It Promote Learning?”
Project Idea #2:
How do real world challenges, such as access to clean water, affect children’s mental health and school performance.
Proposed Research Question: Do water equity challenges, such as poor access to clean water or flooding, cause a student’s grades and mental health to decrease?
Proposed Hypothesis: Being exposed to challenges related to water equity will cause a student’s grades and mental health to decline.
Keywords: Mental health, Flooding, Clean water, Academic performance
Found Review Articles: “The effects of household water insecurity on child health and well‐being”
Found Research Articles: “Water, food, and mental well-being: Associations between drinking water source, household water and food insecurity, and mental well-being of low-income pregnant women in urban Mozambique”
Found SciComm Articles: “Making waves: Mental health impacts of inadequate drinking water services”