Designing and implementing an engaging learning experience about the electric sense of sharks for the visitors at Danmarks Akvarium

Forsvar af kandidatspeciale i biologi ved Therese Røndum Frederiksen.

Vejleder: Robert Harry Evans (IND)

Censor: Bengt Holst (Københavns Zoo)

Resumé

Early inquiry methods have been known since the late 1950s, and now 50 years later their application and popularity is ever growing and the transmission method is one of the most widely used. I wanted to investigate whether the visitors of Danmarks Akvarium were able to learn more about the electric sense of sharks by one method than by the other. Using the inquiry method the 5 E's I devised an inquiry learning experience which was offered to the visitors of Danmarks Akvarium in two different versions, an inquiry and a transmission version. From this I were able to conclude that the participants in my study who received the inquiry learning experience learned and remembered better within a few hours of them receiving the experience.  


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