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Drawing Experiences in Marine Conservation

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The UK National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth has the usual large display tanks of animals but also has an education programme that explores the local and tropical marine environment and conservation issues through creative art and drawing. The National Marine Aquarium also offers a Conservation through Tourism Award. Assessing the learning that has occurred in an informal science environment, such as an aquarium or a hotel, can be difficult without resorting to complex and intrusive questioning.

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  1. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, Australia

    Jill Cainey

  2. Conservation through Tourism Award, National Marine Aquarium, Plymouth, UK

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  3. Graduate School of Education, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

    Rob Bowker

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Cainey, J., Humphrey, L., Bowker, R. (2017). Drawing Experiences in Marine Conservation. In: Katz, P. (eds) Drawing for Science Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-875-4_9

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