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Peer reviewedWoods, Robin K. – Educational Leadership, 1994
Students use their preschool experiences to form personal theories about the world and rarely correct misconceptions even when new information is presented. This article describes an elementary science teacher's efforts to help fifth and sixth graders revise personal electricity theories, based on experimentation. There is no simple way to…
Descriptors: Electricity, Elementary Education, Experiential Learning, Learning Processes
