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Using Analogies To Improve Elementary School Students' Inferential Reasoning about Scientific Concepts.
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Yanowitz, Karen L. – School Science and Mathematics, 2001
Presents a study in which some students in grades 3-6 were taught scientific concepts using instructional analogies while others received expository texts not containing analogies. Indicates that students who received the analogical text demonstrated better inferential reasoning than students who received the non-analogical text. (Contains 57…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction
Demonstrating Proof by Contrapositive and Contradiction through Physical Analogs.
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Kaiser, Mark J. – School Science and Mathematics, 1993
Presents examples where mathematical and physical reasoning complement each other in interpreting and analyzing some basic science concepts using proof by contradiction and contrapositive. Examples involve the rotation of the moon, the stability of electrons and protons, the electron's orbit about the nucleus, and the earth's liquid core. (MDH)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Atomic Structure, Earth Science, Elementary Secondary Education