Using Story to Help Student Understanding of Gas Behavior

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Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 347-361

  Wiebe, Rick ^a   Stinner, Arthur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Story; teaching gas behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149499481     PISSN: 08264805     EISSN: 15731790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10780-010-9135-y     Document Type: Article

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