@inproceedings{169d790d7ebf44689adf8a191684f047,
title = "Examining how scientific modeling emerges through collective embodied play",
abstract = "Previous studies demonstrated that embodied play in a mixed-reality environment can be an entry point for young children to learn about scientific modeling. However, it{\textquoteright}s still unclear how specific features of play orient students towards scientific modeling and thus science learning. We investigate how the organization of an activity where students pretend to be bees to learn about how bees pollinate might direct their attention either to treating these activities as play or to exploring the underlying rules about how bees behave in the real world in a manner more akin to modeling. We describe three activities where students appear to have engaged in different kinds of play and explore how their actions and teachers{\textquoteright} orientation produced either playful rules or scientific accounts. The implications of this work will support teachers and researchers in organizing embodied play activities that help students engage with scientific concepts.",
author = "Xintian Tu and Joshua Danish and Chris Georgen and Megan Humburg and Bria Davis and Noel Enyedy",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} ISLS.; 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning - A Wide Lens: Combining Embodied, Enactive, Extended, and Embedded Learning in Collaborative Settings, CSCL 2019 ; Conference date: 17-06-2019 Through 21-06-2019",
year = "2019",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference, CSCL",
publisher = "International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)",
pages = "676--679",
editor = "Kristine Lund and Niccolai, \{Gerald P.\} and Elise Lavoue and Cindy Hmelo-Silver and Gahgene Gweon and Michael Baker",
booktitle = "A Wide Lens",
address = "United States",
}