Linking Phenomena with Competing Underlying Models: A Software Tool for Introducing Students to the Particulate Model of Matter

Science Education

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 794-830

  Snir, Joseph ^a   Smith, Carol L ^b   Raz, Gila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

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EID: 2442480687     PISSN: 00368326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sce.10069     Document Type: Article

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