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Kangassalo, Marjatta. – Journal of Computing in Childhood Education, 1994
Examines children's understanding of the variation of sunlight and heat of the sun as experienced on the earth related to the positions of the earth and the sun in space, while using a pictorial computer simulation of the phenomenon. Suggests that, through the exploration of the program, children seemed to follow a correctly directed conceptual…
Descriptors: Children, Computer Uses in Education, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching