A research-based teaching sequence for teaching the concept of modelling to seventh-grade students

International Journal of Science Education

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1333-1352

  Saari, Heikki ^a   Viiri, Jouni ^b  

^a Department of Physics ^*  (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STUDENT; TEACHING;

EID: 0346816564     PISSN: 09500693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0950069032000052081     Document Type: Article

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