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    "pk": 31720,
    "title": "Changes in Children's Conceptual Models of a Natural Phenomenon Using a Pictorial Complex Computer Simulation as a Tool",
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    "abstract": "This paper describes an investigation\nexamining the constructing of a conceptual\nmodel of a selected natural phenomenon by\nchildren when using a pictorial computer\nsimulation of that phenomenon. The paper\nconcentrates on describing changes in\nchildren's conceptual models which appeared\nafter an independent and spontaneous\nexploration process. The selected natural\nphenomenon was the variations of sunlight\nand heat of the sun as experienced on the\nearth related to the positions of the earth and\nthe sun in space. Before the exploration of the\nnatural phenomenon with the pictorial\ncomputer simulation children's conceptual\nmodels were at very different levels. S o m e\nchildren's conceptual models of the\nphenomenon were quite unidentified, and\nsome others' very developed. Only some\nchildren's conceptual models contained\nmisconceptions. The most significant change\nin children's conceptual models was that the\ninterconnections of different things and\nphenomena began to be constructed and the\nconstruction seems to be in the direction of\nthe currently accepted scientific knowledge.\nAccording to these findings it seems to be\npossible that an independent exploration by\nmeans of a pictorial computer simulation of a\ngiven natural phenomenon at a very early\nstage, w h e n children are spontaneously\ninterested in those things, could help children\nin the formation of a correctly directed\nconceptual model of that phenomenon.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "Submitted Presentations",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Marjatta",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kangassalo",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Tampere",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "1993-01-01T10:00:00-08:00",
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