Portuguese primary school children’s conceptions about digestion : identification of learning obstacles

A cross-sectional study of Portuguese primary school pupils' conceptions on digestion and the digestive tract was carried out before and after teaching this topic. Pupils of the prior four school years (5/6 to 9/10 year old) drew what happens to a cookie inside their body. In some cases they al...

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Main Author: Carvalho, Graça Simões de (author)
Other Authors: Silva, Rui Manuel Correia da (author), Lima, Nelson (author), Coquet, Eduarda (author), Clément, Pierre (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2004
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/4435
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/4435