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A model-centered science curriculum is developed and implemented to help middle school students learn to reason with qualitative explanatory models that underlie scientific phenomena. The curriculum focuses on concepts important for understanding floating and sinking, coordinating traditional laboratory experiments with interactive computer tasks which permit students to inspect, manipulate and predict with models of the underlying theoretical entities.
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Raghavan, K., Glaser, R. (1994). Studying and Teaching Model-based Reasoning in Science. In: Vosniadou, S., De Corte, E., Mandl, H. (eds) Technology-Based Learning Environments. NATO ASI Series, vol 137. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79149-9_14
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