Exploring Green Streets and rain gardens as instances of small scale nature and environmental learning tools

2015 ◽  
Vol 134 ◽  
pp. 229-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah P. Church
Keyword(s):  
Small Scale ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Rain Gardens ◽  
Environmental Learning

scholarly journals Infiltration Capacity of Rain Gardens Using Full-Scale Test Method: Effect of Infiltration System on Groundwater Levels in Bergen, Norway

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 520
Author(s):  
Guri Venvik ◽  
Floris Boogaard
Keyword(s):  
Full Scale ◽  
Cold Climate ◽  
Test Method ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Delayed Response ◽  
Rain Gardens ◽  
Infiltration Capacity ◽  
Runoff Water ◽  
Infiltration Test ◽  
Scale Test

The rain gardens at Bryggen in Bergen, Western Norway, is designed to collect, retain, and infiltrate surface rainfall runoff water, recharge the groundwater, and replenish soil moisture. The hydraulic infiltration capacity of the Sustainable Drainage System (SuDS), here rain gardens, has been tested with small-scale and full-scale infiltration tests. Results show that infiltration capacity meets the requirement and is more than sufficient for infiltration in a cold climate. The results from small-scale test, 245–404 mm/h, shows lower infiltration rates than the full-scale infiltration test, with 510–1600 mm/h. As predicted, an immediate response of the full-scale infiltration test is shown on the groundwater monitoring in the wells located closest to the infiltration point (<30 m), with a ca. 2 days delayed response in the wells further away (75–100 m). Results show that there is sufficient capacity for a larger drainage area to be connected to the infiltration systems. This study contributes to the understanding of the dynamics of infiltration systems such as how a rain garden interacts with local, urban water cycle, both in the hydrological and hydrogeological aspects. The results from this study show that infiltration systems help to protect and preserve the organic rich cultural layers below, as well as help with testing and evaluating of the efficiency, i.e., SuDS may have multiple functions, not only storm water retention. The functionality is tested with water volumes of 40 m3 (600 L/min for 2 h and 10 min), comparable to a flash flood, which give an evaluation of the infiltration capacity of the system.

Toys ‘R’ Math

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 140-159
Author(s):  
Dyanne M. Tracy ◽  
Mary S. Hague
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Economic Class ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Adult World ◽  
Adult Lives ◽  
Children’S Work

Play is children's work: “… play, games and cognitive development are functionally related” (Sutton-Smith 1971, 258). Children eveywhere, in every time period, from every culture and economic class enjoy playing with toys. Toys are learning tools; whether handmade or commercially produced, they help children prepare for their adult lives. Children's toys are frequently small-scale representations of objects from the adult world.

scholarly journals Development of Mathematic Learning Devices Through The Application of The Problem Based Learning Model to Facilitate KPMM in Number Pattern Materials

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 267
Author(s):  
Eko Payasto ◽  
Maimunah Maimunah ◽  
Sehatta Saragih
Keyword(s):  
Lesson Plan ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Student Response ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Model Learning ◽  
Average Percentage ◽  
Number Pattern ◽  
Mathematical Problems

This research is motivated by the low ability of students to solve mathematical problems (KPMM) and the teacher has not been optimal in developing mathematics learning tools independently. The purpose of this study was to produce mathematics learning tools through the application of the Problem Based Learning (PBL) model to facilitate KPMM students of SMP Negeri 2 Pangkalan Lesung on number pattern material. This type of research is development research using the 4-D model. Learning tools developed in the form of syllabus, lesson plan (RPP) and student worksheets (LKPD) and KPMM questions. The instruments in this study were validation sheets and student questionnaires. Validation sheets consist of syllabus validation sheets, lesson plans validation sheets, and student worksheet validation sheets, while student questionnaires are in the form of student response sheets. Based on the results of the validation analysis, it shows that the device being developed is very valid. The result of the validation of the syllabus was 3.79; the average RPP score was 3.67; and the average LKPD score was 3.66. The student response questionnaire on the small-scale test showed an average percentage of 94.67% with the very practical category. The learning tools developed were valid and practical for use by students of SMPN 2 Pangkalan Lesung.

scholarly journals A Development Design of Digital Story Conceptual Change-Oriented in Physics Subject

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Yudi Kurniawan ◽  
Riski Muliyani
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Change ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Problem Solution ◽  
Communication Effectiveness ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Digital Story ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Good Learning

The result of need analysis shown that are difficulties still exist for teachers and students if they are learning in the new condition immediately. Therefore, this study aims to provide learning tools in the digital form and called as digital story conceptual change oriented (DSCC). This research was research and development by using ADDIE (analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation) design. This media tested the small scale test. The product designed on the subject of physics (Heat and Temperature) was validated by experts and tested on 147 respondents from Junior High School in West Singkawang and Central Singkawang sub-disctrict. The developed design was measured based on Learning Aspect (LA) which consists of: 1) Contextual problems, 2) Solution / Answer to the problem, 3) Communication effectiveness. The results of small-scale product trials shown that the Problem Solution aspect got the highest percentage of 93% and the communication aspect becomes the lowest with 73% while also having the worst responses with a percentage of 10%. This study could be references for researchers to improve the product to be better media and it could be so that it can be used directly and produce good learning outcomes.

On the origin of puppies: breeding and selling procedures relevant for canine behavioural development

2019 ◽  
Vol 184 (23) ◽  
pp. 710-710 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre-Alexandre Dendoncker ◽  
Tiny De Keuster ◽  
Claire Diederich ◽  
Jeroen Dewulf ◽  
Christel P H Moons
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Behavioural Development ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Environmental Learning ◽  
Dog Breeding

The success of the dog as a companion animal has undeniably led to a shift in dog breeding practices. While effects of inbreeding or large-scale breeding have given rise to numerous studies about potentially related health issues, it remains unclear to what extent behavioural development of dogs is influenced. By investigating the environment of puppies while at the breeder, the authors aimed to make an inventory of current practices regarding management, socialisation and environmental learning and subsequently to identify potential differences between breeder types. The cross-sectional study, conducted during 2016, revealed considerable variability in environment among dog breeders. Small-scale breeders, and especially occasional breeders (less than 10 adult dogs on-site) provided most enrichment, both social and non-social, by, for instance, providing more outdoor access for pregnant dams and puppies or by providing access to visitors more freely. Environmental stimuli were less controlled in occasional breeders, raising the debate about quantity versus quality of stimuli at a young age. Large-scale breeders declared to screen potential owners less intensely and time to advise them was limited. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study that compares a large number of environmental factors between the different dog breeding categories.

scholarly journals Diseño y evaluación de herramientas lúdicas de aprendizaje socio-ambiental para identificar actitudes, motivaciones y decisiones de la juventud rural campesina contemporánea

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amayrani Meza-Jiménez ◽  
Luis Enrique García-Barrios ◽  
Antonio Saldívar-Moreno ◽  
José Ángel Vera-Noriega
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Environmental Learning ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Original Table ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Four Discourses

The current and potential relationship of contemporary rural youth with the agricultural and natural patrimony (PAN, according to its Spanish initials) that they will inherit is little known, but vitally important. In this study, we designed, adapted, and evaluated a variety of socio-environmental learning tools in order to identify and reflect on the opinions, actions, and motivations of 14 to 17 year olds in an area of the Sepultura Biosphere Reserve in Chiapas, Mexico to use their PAN in the future. The methodological approach consisted of exploring discourses using the Q method and three original table games (Mi territorio ideal, El carga palito y Manantiales de la Sierra). 46 teens were shown how to use these four tools, their use was monitored in workshops, and results were recorded and statistically analyzed. These tools allowed a) identifying at least four discourses of the teens regarding the use of their PAN, and b) reveal to the teens the preferences for land use, levels of diversification and intensification, and their disposition toward behaviors of dominance/subordination, competition, cooperation, coordination, equity, and solidarity that emerge from their decision making regarding PAN. Participants said they understood and enjoyed these tools, and that they learned about their own motivations. Together, these materials conform a dynamic educational approach that allows teachers and students to identify external and internal motivations, conservation behavior, intensification and diversification for managing PAN, attitudes of dominance and equity among teens, and preferences towards individual or collective working. This proposal is innovative, participatory, dynamic, and contextualized, and has great potential to be incorporated in the middle school curriculum in the study area and in similar rural regions of Mexico, as well as in the rest of Latin America and the world. 

Reasons to strike first

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Buckner ◽  
Luke Glowacki
Keyword(s):  
Intergroup Conflict ◽  
Small Scale

Abstract De Dreu and Gross predict that attackers will have more difficulty winning conflicts than defenders. As their analysis is presumed to capture the dynamics of decentralized conflict, we consider how their framework compares with ethnographic evidence from small-scale societies, as well as chimpanzee patterns of intergroup conflict. In these contexts, attackers have significantly more success in conflict than predicted by De Dreu and Gross's model. We discuss the possible reasons for this disparity.

Exploring Coronal Structures with SOHO

2000 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 403-406
Author(s):  
M. Karovska ◽  
B. Wood ◽  
J. Chen ◽  
J. Cook ◽  
R. Howard
Keyword(s):  
Solar Corona ◽  
Image Enhancement ◽  
Coronal Mass Ejections ◽  
Dynamical Evolution ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Low Contrast ◽  
Contrast Structures ◽  
Scale Structures ◽  
Small Scale Structures ◽  
Coronal Structures

AbstractWe applied advanced image enhancement techniques to explore in detail the characteristics of the small-scale structures and/or the low contrast structures in several Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) observed by SOHO. We highlight here the results from our studies of the morphology and dynamical evolution of CME structures in the solar corona using two instruments on board SOHO: LASCO and EIT.

Scanning tunneling microscopy and atomic force microscopy: New tools for biology

1989 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 778-779
Author(s):  
CE Bracker ◽  
P. K. Hansma
Keyword(s):  
Physical Property ◽  
Scanning Probe ◽  
Scanning Tunneling ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Tunneling Microscopy ◽  
Force Microscopy ◽  
New Family ◽  
Small Probe ◽  
Atomic Force ◽  
Transmission Electron

A new family of scanning probe microscopes has emerged that is opening new horizons for investigating the fine structure of matter. The earliest and best known of these instruments is the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). First published in 1982, the STM earned the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics for two of its inventors, G. Binnig and H. Rohrer. They shared the prize with E. Ruska for his work that had led to the development of the transmission electron microscope half a century earlier. It seems appropriate that the award embodied this particular blend of the old and the new because it demonstrated to the world a long overdue respect for the enormous contributions electron microscopy has made to the understanding of matter, and at the same time it signalled the dawn of a new age in microscopy. What we are seeing is a revolution in microscopy and a redefinition of the concept of a microscope.Several kinds of scanning probe microscopes now exist, and the number is increasing. What they share in common is a small probe that is scanned over the surface of a specimen and measures a physical property on a very small scale, at or near the surface. Scanning probes can measure temperature, magnetic fields, tunneling currents, voltage, force, and ion currents, among others.

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