Shape School Task

Rochester Lead Study children Executive function/learning at 48 and 54 months. Shape School Task PbB mean = 6.5 pg/dl 80% <10pg/dl PbB at 48 months inversely linked with focused attention, color naming, and responding inhibition Canfield et al. (2003)... 

The results of this study underscore the situated character of how everyday life is used in the science classroom. When everyday life problems are brought into the science classroom, their context is inevitably transmuted-, they become classroom tasks and part of school culture. It is not sufficient to describe the use of everyday life in terms of border-crossing experiences or translations between science and everyday life , because science classroom practice is structured also in relation to the activity system of schooling. The use of everyday life is embedded in science classroom practice and shaped by particular goals, desires, demands, and traditions that are constituted within that practice. 

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