From "Try It and See" to Strategic Exploration: Characterizing Young Children's Scientific Reasoning

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 94-118

  Tytler, Russell ^a   Peterson, Suzanne ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; SCHOOL BUILDINGS; TEACHING;

EPISTEMOLOGICAL REASONING; SCIENTIFIC REASONING;

EDUCATION;

EID: 0346497824     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.10126     Document Type: Review

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