Designing, implementing and evaluating a context-based instructional materials on buoyancy force

Energy Education Science and Technology Part B: Social and Educational Studies

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 385-394

  Ultay, Eser ^a   Ultay, Neslihan ^a  

^a GIRESUN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Buoyancy force; Context based approach; Physics education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869767971     PISSN: 13087711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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