{"pk":27435,"title":"Eliciting Middle School Students’ Ideas About Graphs Supports Their Learningfrom a Computer Model","subtitle":null,"abstract":"When middle school students learn science content withgraphs, the graphing and science knowledge may be mutuallyreinforcing: understanding the science content may help stu-dents interpret a related graph, and information from a graphmay illustrate a scientific concept. We examine this relation-ship between graphing and science by studying how studentslearn from interactive computer models with accompanyingdata graphs. The computer models provide an animated simu-lation that illustrates an unobservable phenomenon, while thedata graph tracks one or more quantities over time. This or-dering study, on middle school students learning about photo-synthesis, indicates that engaging with novel graph conceptshelped students interpret their data as they experimented withthe computer model. The study also provided some supportfor the opposite direction: experimenting with the model firsthelped students make sense of the graphs.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Graphing; Photosynthesis; Knowledge Integration"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2pp93159","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Eliane","middle_name":"Stampfer","last_name":"Wiese","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Berkeley","department":""},{"first_name":"Anna","middle_name":"N.","last_name":"Rafferty","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carleton University","department":""},{"first_name":"Marcia","middle_name":"C.","last_name":"Linn","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Berkeley","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27435/galley/17071/download/"}]}