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Fostering Students' Understanding of Interdisciplinary Science in a summer science camp
Submitted on 19-JUL-07
Contributed by Namsoo Shin, Shawn Stevens, Cesar Delgado, Clara Cahill, Molly Yunker, Joseph Krajcik

In this study, we present the effects of a two-week interdisciplinary science camp for middle school students. The curriculum was developed based upon results from our previous research with a population of students from the same school district, which suggested some specific deficiencies in students? understanding in the areas of size and scale, structure and properties of matter and forces and interactions. We used three different assessment formats to gauge student learning and attitude chan...