Do earth and environmental science textbooks promote middle and high school students' conceptual development about climate change? Textbooks' consideration of students' misconceptions

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 91, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 889-898

  Choi, Soyoung ^a   Niyogi, Dev ^b   Shepardson, Daniel P ^a   Charusombat, Umarporn ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS; LITERATURE REVIEWS; SCIENCE TEXTBOOK; THIN LAYERS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; EARTH (PLANET); ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSES; SUN; TEXTBOOKS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 77955638796     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009BAMS2625.1     Document Type: Article

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