@inproceedings{b14370d22a6a44818800a70929b0316a,
title = "Students talk about energy in project-based inquiry science",
abstract = "We examine the types of emergent language eighth grade students in rural Maine middle schools use when they discuss energy in their first experiences with Project-Based Inquiry Science: Energy, a research-based curriculum that uses a specific language for talking about energy. By comparative analysis of the language used by the curriculum materials to students' language, we find that students' talk is at times more aligned with a Stores and Transfer model of energy than the Forms model supported by the curriculum.",
keywords = "energy, language, middle school",
author = "Harrer, \{Benedikt W.\} and Flood, \{Virginia J.\} and Wittmann, \{Michael C.\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2013 American Institute of Physics.; 2012 Physics Education Research Conference, PERC 2012 ; Conference date: 01-08-2012 Through 02-08-2012",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1063/1.4789677",
language = "English",
series = "AIP Conference Proceedings",
publisher = "American Institute of Physics Inc.",
pages = "162--165",
editor = "Rebello, \{N. Sanjay\} and Engelhardt, \{Paula V.\} and Churukian, \{Alice D.\}",
booktitle = "2012 Physics Education Research Conference",
}