Teaching to promote the development of scientific knowledge and reasoning about light at the elementary school level

How Students Learn: Science in the Classroom

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 421-474

  Magnusson, Shirley J ^a   Palincsar, Annemarie Sullivan ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b School of Education at the University of Michigan   (United States)

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EID: 85014344464     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.17226/11102     Document Type: Chapter

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