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This website includes a collection of drawings, animations, and pictures of physical artifacts that 5th grade student created to explain their understanding of air. Students were interviewed one-on-one, and asked to produce these drawings, animations, and physical constructions - while explaining verbally what they built. The context was around a linked-syringe device, shown at the right. Students used this device to experiment with air, and as the basis for their representations. 


The participants were from a public school in the greater Boston area, and this is the selected work of 4 students.  

When you have time, please review the instructions for each section (drawings, animations, artifacts), and leave comments with whatever ideas you think the productions convey. What particular ideas about air were the students showing? Did they use the representations in unique ways? What other things do the productions make you think of? I am looking for open-ended, raw feedback - so please offer any thoughts or insights that you may have.

Please click the following links to look at each section of student representations:

Student Drawings

Student Animations

Student Artifacts

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Thank you for your time! And don't hesitate to email me with problems or questions. 


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