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082			_a507 / Fue
100			_aFuente, Yohanis de la
245			_aRelating ecological technical terms to students' reasoning between 1st and 4th grades
300			_ap. 196 - 205
520			_aThis study investigates how lower elementary students used the technical terms in the context of ecology. We interviewed 44 students using several scenarios related to the ecosystem. We determined the general frequency of technical terms used from a preselected list commonly employed by scientists in their discourse about ecosystems. Then, we identified the contextualisation of the technical terms. The results showed three categories: naming – where the terms referred to an event or object without any appropriate scientific explanation, partial explanation – where the terms revealed a scientific idea mixed with other alternative conceptions, and complete scientific explanation – where the terms were used to completely convey the proper scientific idea. We discuss the practical implication of those results for teaching ecology.
650			_aNaming
650			_aExplaining
650			_aScientific literacy
650			_aBiology education
650			_aStudents' reasoning
700			_aHokayem, Hayat
773	0		_080467 _dInstitute Of Biology _oS39 _tJournal of Biological Education, 52(2), June 2018 _x0021-9266
856			_uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00219266.2017.1293558
942			_2ddc _cAR