Second graders articulating ideas about linear functional relationships

Fourth Graders Make Inventions using SCAMPER and Animal Adaptation Ideas

This study explores to what extent the SCAMPER (Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify, Put to another use, Eliminate, and Rearrange) technique combined with animal adaptation ideas learned through form and function analogy activities can help fourth graders generate creative ideas while augmenting their inventiveness. The sample consisted of 24 fourth grade students (14 female, 10 male) ages 9-10 ...

Third Graders’ Misconceptions about Evaporation and Liquefaction Phenomena

Third Graders’ Misconceptions about Evaporation and Liquefaction Phenomena A. Badriyaan, Ph.D. Concepts of evaporation and liquefaction are of significance in both daily life and the school curriculum, yet misconceptions about these two phenomena are frequent. To assess the extent of such misconceptions among third graders, a cluster sample of 132 of them from four schools i...

Evolving Ideas about Cyclins

instance, is associated primarily with activation of S James M. Roberts Division of Basic Sciences phase whereas CDK1 primarily with mitosis. However, assays using defined peptides reveal only subtle differFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Howard Hughes Medical Institute ences in substrate preference between CDK1 and CDK2 (Holmes and Solomon, 1996), and there is no compelling 1100 Fair...

Some Ideas About Colour

Emerging Ideas About Categories

The study of human categorization is contentious because it matters. How we understand the processes that give rise to categories is at the very core of how we understand human cognition. Over the past several decades, there has been growing concern that the assumptions that define and distinguish competing theories may notbe quite right. These assumptions are based on the traditional metaphor ...