Water towers, pump houses, and mountain streams: Students' ideas about watersheds

Journal of Geoscience Education

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 381-386

  Shepardson, Daniel P ^a   Harbor, Jon ^b   Wee, Bryan ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCE; EDUCATION;

EID: 27744532474     PISSN: 10899995     EISSN: 10899995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5408/1089-9995-53.4.381     Document Type: Article

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