The effectiveness of an environment for blended participatory learning by including some principles of sustainable development and NGSS in a unit in the science course to develop productive thinking skills and environmental citizenship and reduce mental wandering among sixth graders of primary school

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Benha University Faculty of Education

Abstract

The aim of the current research is to identify the effectiveness of the integrated participatory learning environment in developing productive thinking skills, responsible environmental citizenship, and reducing the mind wandering among sixth-grade students in the schools of Bisha Governorate in the primary stage in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Some principles of sustainable development, and some standards of science for the next generation. The research adopted the experimental method with a design based on the two experimental groups (taught by experimental treatment) and the control group (taught in the usual way), where the number of each of them amounted to (32) female students. The research tools included a test of productive thinking skills, the measure of responsible environmental citizenship, and the scale of mind wandering in the two dimensions, and the most important results of the research were the effectiveness of integrated participatory learning in the development of dependent variables.

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