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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Dec
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Creative Writing and Promoting Understanding in Science: Alternative Ways to Interest Students in Writing about Science
Akcay, Hakan; Hand, Brian; Norton-Meier, Lori
School Science Review, v92 n339 p49-53 Dec 2010
Science writing opportunities are used as a resource to enable students to understand science concepts. This study represents three different writing-to-learn tasks that enable students to learn science and to demonstrate their developing understanding about the human body system. The teacher and students engaged in a variety of science enquiries connected with writing opportunities that worked together to develop student understanding about the human body system. (Contains 2 tables and 4 boxes.)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Human Body, Science Instruction, Science Education, Science Curriculum, Inquiry, Science Activities, Scientific Methodology, Scientific Literacy, Evaluation, Elementary School Teachers, Scientific Concepts
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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