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

From the data analysis, we can observe that 71% (n = 25) of motivations focus on the trail itself, 20% (n = 7) on the natural context, and 9% (n = 3) on the activities performed during the trail walk, with no significant differences found between age groups (Fig 14; χ2(3) = 4,867; p = .118). Discussion Our results suggest that the CP effectively promoted participants’ engagement with a nature- rich environment during visits to the trail of Miste´rios Negros. Nonetheless, we conclude that Fig 13. Results of the lexical similarity analysis representing the relationships between the 34 responses to the final free, open-ended activity. Line thickness and numbers correspond to the frequency of co-occurrence, circle sizes to evocation frequency, and each color aggregates clusters of meaning. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262853.g013 PLOS ONE Cultural probes for environmental education PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262853 February 10, 2022 23 / 30