The Scientific Thinker Project: A Study of Teaching and Learning Concepts of Evidence and Nature of Scientific Evidence in Elementary School

Current curriculum materials for elementary science students and teachers fail to provoke the following essential questions during science instruction: What is evidence? Why do you need evidence? The goal of this project is to identify whether and how elementary school students formulate answers to these questions and develop concepts of evidence and understandings of the nature of scientific evidence.

Lead Organization(s): 
Award Number: 
0918533
Funding Period: 
Sat, 08/01/2009 - Sat, 07/31/2010
Syndicate content

Project Members

First Name Last Name Project Role
Joseph Reed Program Officer
Kara Naidoo Support Staff
Susan Kirch Principal Investigator