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Blown, E. J.; Bryce, T. G. K. – International Journal of Science Education, 2006
The development of children's cosmologies was investigated over a 13-year period, using multi-modal, in-depth interviews with 686 children (217 boys, 227 girls from New Zealand and 129 boys, 113 girls from China), aged 2-18. Children were interviewed while they "observed" the apparent motion of the Sun and Moon, and other features of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Astronomy, Concept Formation, Motion