Preservice elementary teachers' ideas about clays

Journal of Geoscience Education

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 310-320

  Rule, Audrey C ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY; EDUCATION; GEOLOGY; MINERALOGY; PRIMARY EDUCATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEACHING;

EID: 44349132241     PISSN: 10899995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5408/1089-9995-55.4.310     Document Type: Article

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