Developing teaching with an explicit focus on scientific thinking

By Keith S. Taber, et al.

Issue 361 | Page 75 | Published Jun 2016

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A teaching module to introduce students to a feature of the nature of science (analogies and models) through learning about a curriculum topic (electricity) was developed and field tested.

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