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Direct linkEndreny, Anna Henderson – Journal of Elementary Science Education, 2006
In this paper, I describe the action research I conducted in my third-grade science classrooms over the course of two years. In order to gain an understanding of my third-grade students' ideas about animal adaptations and how the teaching of a unit on crayfish influenced these ideas, I used clinical interviews, observations, and written…
Descriptors: Animals, Action Research, Science Curriculum, Concept Formation
