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Do Verbal Labels Help Children Acquire Science Concepts?

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Billings, Gilbert – School Science and Mathematics, 1979

Investigates the effects upon concept acquisition of giving second-grade children the verbal labels of science concepts with which they have had concrete experience in a classroom setting using the interaction and evidence of interaction concepts from the Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS). (HM)

Descriptors: Concept Formation, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science

An Investigation of the System Concept.

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Hill, Douglas M.; Redden, Michael G. – School Science and Mathematics, 1985

Control group students (receiving descriptive, non-inquiry science) and experimental group students (using Science Curriculum Improvement Study-SCIS "Interaction and Systems" materials) were later combined in grade 4 for instruction with SCIS "Subsystems and Variables" materials. Results show similar difficulties in learning…

Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Elementary Education