Publications:
Multimodal Text Comprehension and Production by Preschool Children: An Interdisciplinary Approach of Water Conservation

The paper presents an interdisciplinary program on water shortage and conservation, by means of multimodal texts for preschool children.

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Accounting for Natural Phenomena: Explanatory Modes Used by Children

A framework for classifying children's explanations about dissolution, floating, magnetic forces, plant nutrition and the water cycle is presented. Explanations are classified as naturalistic, non-naturalisic, or synthetic.

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Teaching Magnetic Attraction to Preschool Children: A Comparison of Different Approaches

The paper discribes three different approaches for teaching magnetic attraction to preschool children. The processes adopted and the learning outcomes of the three settings are compared and discussed.

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Children’s Drawings about Environmental Phenomena: The Use of Visual Codes

The study explores the types of visual codes used by primary school children and estimates their degree of compatibility with the codes normally used for the illustration of scientific texts.

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