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Shaby, Neta; Ben-Zvi Assaraf, Orit; Tal, Tali – Research in Science Education, 2019
This mixed-method research focuses on how school children visiting a science museum with their class perceive the overall experience of their visit to the science museum and which aspects of the science museum experience they recall as significant. The study participants were seventy two 4th grade students (age 9-10) who came to the museum with…
Descriptors: Museums, Science Instruction, Science Teaching Centers, Grade 4
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DeWitt, Jennifer E. – Journal of Museum Education, 2008
What meaning visitors make from their interactions with science center exhibits--and "how" they do so--is an issue of enduring interest in the field of learning in informal contexts. In order to explore what resources schoolchildren bring to bear in making meaning, this study used video clips taken during school trips to prompt…
Descriptors: Exhibits, Science Teaching Centers, Museums, Interviews