The impact of a media-rich science curriculum on low-income preschoolers' science talk at home

Learning in the Disciplines: ICLS 2010 Conference Proceedings - 9th International Conference of the Learning Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 238-245

  Penuel, William R ^a   Bates, Lauren ^b   Pasnik, Shelley ^b   Townsend, Eve ^b   Gallagher, Lawrence P ^a   Llorente, Carlin ^a   Hupert, Naomi ^b  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL CONTENTS; HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES; INDIRECT MEASURE; OUTCOME MEASURES; RANDOM ASSIGNMENT; SCIENCE CURRICULUM; TELEVISION SHOWS;

TEACHING; TELEVISION BROADCASTING;

CURRICULA;

EID: 84880527731     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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