Collaboration Physics

by: Danielle Harlow and Valerie K. Otero

Elementary school teachers and university researchers combine their expertise to help students construct an understanding of force—and discover something of the nature of science in the process. Second- and third-grade students in an after school science program explore friction with toy cars.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 2/1/2005Stock # sc05_042_05_35Volume 042Issue 05

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