What Does a Tree Eat?
One of the failings that science education researchers generally agree on is that our science instruction does not begin with an attempt to find out what students know, and therefore what they really...
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I reported in my previous post that seventh graders, in three science classes, believed that a tree grows by eating dirt. Historically, that is exactly the belief held up to the Middle Ages. In 1634...
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The one point that science education researchers agree on is that human beings, almost from birth, learn how to live in the real world dominated by forces and motions. Humans learn to crawl, stand,...
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