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Article Title
Document Type
Article
Abstract
According to Piaget, a teacher must be aware of the mental development of children in order to present concepts to students in a meaningful way. Too often, the mental processes of children are ignored in teaching. After years of teaching the phases of the moon in the traditional manner of using diagrams in texts; drawings on the board and teacher demonstrations with models, I discovered, several months after instruction, that a majority of my students could not demonstrate the positions of the moon in relation to the sun and earth in explaining moon phases.
Publication Date
April 1980
Journal Title
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Volume
17
Issue
1
First Page
17
Last Page
19
Copyright
© Copyright 1980 by the Iowa Academy of Science
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Brockway, Carolyn
(1980)
"Moon Phases and Piaget,"
Iowa Science Teachers Journal: Vol. 17:
No.
1, Article 8.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/istj/vol17/iss1/8