Seeing Tornado: How Video Traces mediate visitor understandings of (natural?) phenomena in a science museum

Science Education

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 735-747

  Stevens, Reed ^a   Hall, Rogers ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0031520719     PISSN: 00368326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-237X(199711)81:6<735::AID-SCE9>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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