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This paper describes some issues in the design, development, and production of a number of teaching and learning materials and their implications for environmental science curricula, school science textbooks, and web-based/ICT applications. Our research team is experienced (Plakitsi, 2008, 2010) in writing school science textbooks and in constructing web-based applications for the first grades from an inquiring and a sociocognitive perspective.
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Plakitsi, K., Kolokouri, E., Nanni, E., Stamoulis, E., Theodoraki, X. (2013). Chat in Developing new Environmental Science Curricula, School Textbooks, and Web-Based Applications for the First Grades. In: Plakitsi, K. (eds) Activity Theory in Formal and Informal Science Education. Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Science Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-317-4_5
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