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Fourth‐grade Elementary Students’ Conceptions of Standards‐based Lunar Concepts

Kathy Cabe Trundle The Ohio State University, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Ronald K. Atwood University of Kentucky, USA
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John E. Christopher University of Kentucky, USA
Pages 595-616 | Published online: 26 Mar 2007

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