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Seventh grade students' mental models of the greenhouse effect

Daniel P. Shepardson Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA; Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Soyoung Choi Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
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Dev Niyogi Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA; Department of Agronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
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Umarporn Charusombat Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
Pages 1-17 | Received 21 Sep 2009, Accepted 16 Dec 2009, Published online: 13 Feb 2011

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