Activities for Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science part of SERC Print Resource Collection
National Academy Press
This is a chapter from the National Academy of Sciences book "Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science" (1998). This chapter presents eight activities that science ...

Earth and Mind: How Geologists Think and Learn about the Earth part of SERC Print Resource Collection
C.A. Manduca, D.W. Mogk
What does it mean to be a geoscientist? What characterizes the expertise that geoscientists bring to understanding the Earth? How do students develop this expertise? This volume brings together ...

Building Bridges Between Geoscience Research, Teaching and Learning with Thematics Digital Resource Collections: An Example Using the Cretacious Period part of SERC Print Resource Collection
J. Aschoff, D.W. Mogk, et al.

Metaphoric structuring: Understanding time through spatial metaphors part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Lera Boroditsky
Abstract: cited by Tversky 2005, re "priming of temporal perspective from spatial but not vice versa", which is supposed to indicate that spatial use of overlapping terms such as ...

Developmental and cognitive perspectives on human's sense of the times of past and future events part of SERC Print Resource Collection
W. J. Friedman

An investigation into understanding of geological time among 10- and 11-year-old children part of SERC Print Resource Collection
R. D. Trend

Conceptions of geological time among primary teacher trainees, with reference to their engagement with geosciences, history and science part of SERC Print Resource Collection
R. D. Trend

Deep time framework: A preliminary study of U. K. primary teachers' conceptions of geological time and perceptions of geoscience part of SERC Print Resource Collection
R. D. Trend

How Important is Deep Time? part of SERC Print Resource Collection
R. D. Trend
Summarizes all his work on perception of deep time, among 10-11 year olds, 17 year olds, pre-service teachers, and in-service teachers. 10-11 year olds have 2 clusters for events in geologic history ...

Cognitive factors affecting student understanding of geological time part of SERC Print Resource Collection
J. Dodick, N. Orion