%0 Journal Article
%T The effect of experimental activities on science learning by elementary school children
%A M. Goreti Matos
%A Jorge Valadares
%J Investiga£¿£¿es em Ensino de Ci¨ºncias
%D 2001
%I Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
%X In this paper we present a reflection on the elementary school science laboratory. Contrary to what happen in other countries, laboratory teaching is not a common practice amongst elementary school science teachers in Portugal. This paper intends to question this fact. It's a reflection resulting from an investigation involving 4th graders.
%K experimental science teaching
%K elementary school
%K constructivist approach
%U http://www.if.ufrgs.br/ienci/artigos/Artigo_ID75/v6_n2_a2001.pdf