Seventh grade students' mental models of the greenhouse effect

Environmental Education Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-17

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

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Conceptions; Constructivism

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951575505     PISSN: 13504622     EISSN: 14695871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504620903564549     Document Type: Article

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