ARIES: Science as Discovery . . . and Discovery as Science!

by: R. Bruce Ward, Janice Catledge, and Kathy Price

This chapter presents Project ARIES, developed at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and funded by the National Science Foundation, with additional support from Harvard University and the Smithsonian Institution. ARIES is a modular, astronomy-based physical science curriculum for students in grades 3-8. ARIES provides classroom teachers with effective pedagogical strategies to help students construct new understandings of the natural world.

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Type Book ChapterPub Date 1/1/2006Stock # PB192X2_15

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