Children's ideas in science / edited by Rosalind Driver, Edith Guesne, and Andrée Tiberghien.

Milton Keynes [Buckinghamshire] ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1985.

xi, 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Children's ideas and the learning of science / Rosalind Driver, Edith Guesne and Andrée Tiberghien -- Light / Edith Guesne -- Electricity in simple circuits / David Shipstone -- Heat and temperature / Gaalen Erickson and Andrée Tiberghien -- Force and motion / Richard Gunstone and Michael Watts -- The gaseous state / Marie Geniève Séré -- The particulate nature of matter in the gaseous phase / Joseph Nussbaum -- Beyond appearances : the conservation of matter under physical and chemical transformations / Rosalind Driver -- The earth as a cosmic body / Joseph Nussbaum -- Some features of children's ideas and their implications for teaching / Rosalind Driver, Edith Guesne and Andrée Tiberghien.

Includes bibliographies and index.