Preparing Preservice Elementary Teachers to Teach Science Through Computer Models

Nicos Valanides; Charoula Angeli

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 6, No. 1 (March 2006) pp. 87–98

The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which preservice elementary teachers were able to construct viable scientific models with a computer-modeling tool, namely Model-It, and design a science lesson with models. The results of the...

Topics: Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Technology, Elementary Education, Computers, Integration