Research Talk at W&M School of Education

In this talk, Assistant Professor Kathryn Lanouette shared findings from a multi-year research collaboration at an elementary school, where she researched 4th- and 5th-grade students learning about ecological systems and data using participatory GIS maps. Dr. Lanouette also described how children’s connections to the schoolyard – social, emotional, and historical – shaped their understanding of complex ecosystem relationships as well as their sensemaking about data.