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What's so hard about teaching science?

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Do you feel that science is sifficult to understand and hard to teach? Do you designate only a small amount of time for a science period? Are you afraid of the question “Why?”

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  1. Michael E. Knight
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  2. Terry Lynne Graham
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Michael E. Knight and Terry Lynne Graham are co-authors ofTeaching Children to Love Themselves andThe Leaves are Falling in Rainbows.

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Knight, M.E., Graham, T.L. What's so hard about teaching science?. Early Childhood Educ J 12, 14–16 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01623091

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