Children Making Sense of Science

Research in Science Education

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 283-298

  Murphy, Clíona ^a   Murphy, Colette ^b   Kilfeather, Paula ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inquiry based science education (IBSE); Language skills: Nature of science (NoS); Primary science; School science; Scientific processes; Understanding

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952042794     PISSN: 0157244X     EISSN: 15731898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11165-010-9165-6     Document Type: Article

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