Chemation: Classroom impact of a handheld chemistry modeling and animation tool

Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Interaction Design and Children: Building a Community, IDC 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 119-120

  Chang, Hsin Yi ^a   Scott, Lisa Ann ^a   Quintana, Chris ^a   Krajcik, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Animation; Chemistry; Handheld computers; Modeling

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; CHEMISTRY; EDUCATION; HAND HELD COMPUTERS; MODELS; TEACHING;

ADDED VALUES; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY CONCEPTS; CHEMISTRY MODELING; CLASSROOM ACTIVITY; HAND-HELD TOOLS; MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS; STUDENT INTERVIEWS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 77951983230     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1017833.1017850     Document Type: Conference Paper

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