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Peer reviewedStylianidou, Fani; Boohan, Richard – Research in Science Education, 1998
Six 12-year-old students were followed during an eight-month course using "Energy and Change" curricular materials, which introduce ideas related to the Second Law of Thermodynamics through an abstract picture language. Concludes that students had higher levels of generalization in their explanations of physical, chemical, and biological…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change, Concept Formation, Energy
