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BeeSign: Designing to Support Mediated Group Inquiry of Complex Science by Early Elementary Students
Download full textDanish, Joshua A.; Peppler, Kylie; Phelps, David – Online Submission, 2010
All too often, designers assume that complex science and cycles of inquiry are beyond the capabilities of young children (5-8 years old). However, with carefully designed mediators, we argue that such concepts are well within their grasp. In this paper we describe two design iterations of the BeeSign simulation software that was designed to help…
Descriptors: Young Children, Scientific Concepts, Entomology, Inquiry
Johnson, Gary R. – 1983
Two basic concepts of the social sciences--society and culture--are analyzed and new definitions are proposed. Concepts are the basic building blocks of scientific theory. A science with poor concepts will, therefore, be incapable of producing powerful scientific theory. When commonly used social science definitions of society and culture are…
Descriptors: Definitions, Fundamental Concepts, Models, Scientific Concepts
