Trends in children's concepts of vertebrate and invertebrate

Journal of Biological Education

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 112-118

  Braund, Martin ^a,b,c  

^a Bretton Hall College ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b North Yorkshire LEA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal form; Children's concepts; Trends in ideas; Vertebrate

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; PHOCIDAE; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032364667     PISSN: 00219266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00219266.1998.9655606     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Braund, M. (1991) Children's ideas in classifying animals. Journal of Biological Education, 25(2), 103-110.
2. Braund, M. (1996) Snakes can't have backbones - can they? Primary Science Review, 44, 20-22.
3. Cassidy, M. and Tranter, J. (1996) Animals. In Living biology in schools, ed. Reiss, M. pp. 49-66. London: Institute of Biology.
4. Department for Education (1995) Science in the National Curriculum. London: HMSO.
5. Driver, R. and Easley, J. (1978) Pupils and paradigms: a review of literature related to concept development in adolescent science students. Studies in Science Education, 5, 61-84.
6. Institute of Biology (1989) (amended edn, 1997) Biological Nomenclature (p.16 section 3.3 para 4.) London: Institute of Biology.
7. Lock, R. (1993) Using animals in school science lessons. School Science Review, 74(268), 129-130.
8. Lock, R. and Millett, K. (1991) Animals and science education project research report 1990-91. Birmingham: University of Birmingham.
9. OFSTED (1995) Science: a review of inspection findings 1993/94. London: HMSO.
10. Osborne, R. and Freyberg, P. (1985) Learning in science. Aukland: Heinemann.
11. Page, M. (1991) Eyewitness Visual Dictionaries - The Visual Dictionary of Animals. London: Dorling Kindersley.
12. Reiss, M. and Beaney, N. J. (1992) Living organisms in schools. Journal of Biological Education, 26(1), 63-66.
13. Ryman, D. (1974a) Children's understanding of the classification of living organisms. Journal of Biological Education, 8(3), 140-144.
14. Ryman, D. (1974b) The relative effectiveness of teaching methods on pupils' understanding of the classification of living organisms at two levels of intelligence. Journal of Biological Education, 8(4), 219-223.
15. Sparks, J. (1972) Animal design. London: British Broadcasting Corporation.
16. Tema, B. O. (1989) Rural and urban African pupils' alternative conceptions of 'animal'. Journal of Biological Education, 23(3), 199-207.
17. Trowbridge, J. E. and Mintzes, J. J. (1985) Students' alternative conceptions of animais and animal classification. School Science and Mathematics, 85(4), 305-316.
18. Watts, D. M. (1983) A study of schoolchildren's alternative frameworks of the concept of force. European Journal of Science Education, 5(2), 217-230.