Cultural probes for environmental education: Designing learning materials to engage children and teenagers with local biodiversity

participants to pause, be silent, hear, smell, touch, visually admire different natural elements were designed to encourage an aesthetic experience. We also invited participants to engage introspectively with nature while reading a poem by Alberto Caeiro (one of Fernando Pessoa’s heteronyms) [39] in Activity 11 (Table 2). Individual stations additionally provided more Fig 3. The Field Guide cultural probe toolkit canvas bag (with original project title in Portuguese). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262853.g003 PLOS ONE Cultural probes for environmental education PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262853 February 10, 2022 10 / 30