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Bakopoulou, Athanasia; Antonarakou, Assimina; Zambetakis-Lekkas, Alexandra – Education Sciences, 2021
This paper studies Greek junior high school students' alternative ideas, both initial and synthetic, on geodynamic phenomena. It comments in detail on students' concepts on Earth structure, earthquake occurrence, volcano formation, and relief change. Additionally, it attempts to trace and interpret how and why these ideas form (concept…
Descriptors: Junior High School Students, Early Adolescents, Public Schools, Scientific Concepts
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King, Chris – School Science Review, 2001
Details an 'explanatory Earth story' on plate tectonics to show how such a 'story' can be developed in an earth science context. Presents five other stories in outline form. Explains the use of these stories as vehicles to present the big ideas of science. (DDR)
Descriptors: Earth Science, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, General Science