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Download full textTull, Delena – 1992
The assertion that there is a social component to children's construction of knowledge about natural phenomena is supported by evidence from an examination of children's classification schemes for plants. An ethnographic study was conducted with nine sixth grade children in central Texas. The children classified plants in the outdoors, in a…
Descriptors: Botany, Class Activities, Classification, Cognitive Structures
