A framework to identify opportunities to address socioscientific issues in the elementary school curricula: A case study from England, Italy, and Portugal

• Patrícia Pessoa ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: afppatricia@gmail.com

  Affiliation Research Centre in the Didactics and Technology in the Education of Trainers (CIDTFF.UA), Department of Education and Psychology, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugaland University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), Vila Real, Portugal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8114-795X

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• Joelyn de Lima,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, E Gull Lake Dr, Hickory Corners, Michigan, United States of America and The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9235-9704

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• Valentina Piacentini,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Centre in the Didactics and Technology in the Education of Trainers (CIDTFF.UA), Department of Education and Psychology, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugaland “Via Merope” school cluster, Rome, Italy

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• Giulia Realdon,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UNICAMearth Group, Geology Section, University of Camerino, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8269-4269

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• Alex Jeffries,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Milner Centre for Evolution, Department of Life Sciences, University of Bath, Claverton Down, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6923-0979

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• Lino Ometto,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2679-625X

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• J. Bernardino Lopes,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Centre in the Didactics and Technology in the Education of Trainers (CIDTFF.UA), Department of Education and Psychology, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugaland University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), Vila Real, Portugal

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• Dana L. Zeidler,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Teaching and Learning, College of Education, East Fowler Avenue, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

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• Maria João Fonseca,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Natural History and Science Museum of the University of Porto (MHNC-UP), Praça Gomes Teixeira, Porto, Portugal

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• Bruno Sousa,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Alpoente - Albufeira poente school cluster, Rua das Escolas, Apartado , Albufeira, Portugal

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• Alexandre Pinto,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Research and Innovation in Education - inED, ESE, Polytechnic of Porto, Porto, Portugal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3774-0884

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• Xana Sá-Pinto

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Centre in the Didactics and Technology in the Education of Trainers (CIDTFF.UA), Department of Education and Psychology, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

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