College MOON project Australia: Preservice teachers learning about the moon's phases

Research in Science Education

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 385-399

  Mulholland, Judith ^a   Ginns, Ian ^a  

^a ACU National   (Australia)

Author keywords

Lunar phases; On line discussion; Preservice elementary teachers; Science content knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 42349115901     PISSN: 0157244X     EISSN: 15731898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11165-007-9055-8     Document Type: Article

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