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Direct linkShaw, Edward L., Jr.; Baggett, Paige V.; Salyer, Barbara – Science Activities: Classroom Projects and Curriculum Ideas, 2004
Computer technology can be integrated into science inquiry activities to increase student motivation and enhance and expand scientific thinking. Fifth-grade students used the visual thinking tools in the Kidspiration[R] software program to generate and represent a web of hypotheses around the question, "What affects the distance a marble rolls?"…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Inquiry, Science Activities, Computer Uses in Education
