Drops of water and of soap solution: Students' constraining mental models of the nature of matter

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 970-993

  Eilam, Billie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; PERFORMANCE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOAPS (DETERGENTS); WATER;

CONTENT ANALYSIS; SCIENCE EXPERIMENT; SOAP SOLUTION;

STUDENTS;

EID: 10844278293     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.20034     Document Type: Article

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