Students' use of the energy model to account for changes in physical systems

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 444-469

  Papadouris, Nicos ^a   Constantinou, Constantinos P ^a   Kyratsi, Theodora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Curriculum development; Nature of science (NOS); Physics

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; DATA ACQUISITION; ENERGY TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TEACHING;

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT; NATURE OF SCIENCE (NOS); PHYSICAL SYSTEMS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 42549130405     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: 10982736     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.20235     Document Type: Article

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