TitleModels and modeling : Cognitive tools for scientific enquiry / edited by Myint Swe Khine, Issa M. Saleh
Imprint Dordrecht : Springer, 2011
Descript viii, 290 p. : ill. ; 26 cm

CONTENT

Part I: Theory formation and modeling in science education -- Modeling and the future of expert theory formation : the role of different model types and domain frameworks -- The nature of scientific meta-knowledge -- From modeling schemata to the profiling schema : Modeling across the curricula for profile shaping education -- Part II: Modeling and student learning in science education -- Helping students construct robust conceptual models -- The molecular workbench software: an innovative dynamic modeling tool for nanoscience education -- Lowering the learning threshold: Multi-agent-based models and learning electricity -- Engineering-Based modelling experiences in the elementary and middle classroom -- Engaging elementary students in scientific modeling: the models fifth-grade approach and findings -- Part II: Modeling and teachers' knowledge -- Relationships between elementary teachers' conceptions of scientific modeling and the nature of science -- Science teachers' knowledge about learning and teaching models and modeling in public understanding of science -- Teaching pre-service elementary teachers to teach science with computer models


SUBJECT

  1. Science -- Study and teaching

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