School visits to natural history museums: Teaching or enriching?

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 747-769

  Tal, Tali ^a   Morag, Orly ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Field trips excursions; Informal science; Museum education

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MUSEUMS; STUDENTS; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

DATA COLLECTION; FIELD TRIPS/EXCURSIONS; INFORMAL SCIENCE; MUSEUM EDUCATION;

TEACHING;

EID: 34248997776     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: 10982736     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.20184     Document Type: Article

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