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Direct linkSinger, Melissa; Radinsky, Joshua; Goldman, Susan R. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
This article examines the role of gesture in the shared meaning-making processes of 6th-grade students studying plate tectonics using a data visualization tool; specifically, a geographic information system. Students' verbal and gestural characterizations of key concepts of plate motions (i.e., "subduction", "rift", and "buckling") were…
Descriptors: Investigations, Plate Tectonics, Information Systems, Grade 6
