Children's ideas of animals' internal structures

Journal of Biological Education

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 62-67

  Prokop, Pavol ^a,d   Prokop, Matej ^a   Tunnicliffe, Sue Dale ^b,e   Diran, Carla ^c,f  

^a TRNAVA UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Medinet   (Slovakia)

^d INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f Medinet sro   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

2D and 3D objects; Anatomy; Animals; Children' ideas; Drawings

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 34047266659     PISSN: 00219266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00219266.2007.9656064     Document Type: Article

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