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How much does it matter whether children think science is about stereotypical tools like microscopes and beakers—or about seeking evidence and building explanations for how the world works? New paper w/ @debkelemen.bsky.social suggests these ideas shape how children learn science.🧵 bit.ly/4u5FsYi

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🧩 This question has mattered to me since graduate school, so I’m especially excited to see it in print. Happy to share the paper if anyone would like to read it. #ScienceEducation #DevPsych #SciComm

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Aarti Bodas

🧩 The takeaway: beyond fostering science identity and growth mindset, supporting science learning may also require helping children develop richer understandings of what science is.

🧩 Elementary school children’s agreement that science seeks to explain the world predicted their learning from a curriculum on evolution by natural selection.

#SRCD2025 thank you to everyone who came to see our symposium today!

If you are at #CDS2026 and sticking around for the last poster session, come see my poster on the relative influence of fixed mindset, science ID, and conceptions of science on children’s learning in a life science curriculum!

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🧩 The Evolving Minds Project (www.evolvingmindsproject.org) curriculum shifted children’s views of science itself: children became less likely to define science in stereotypical terms and more likely to see science as evidence-seeking and explanation-building.

May 2, 2025

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Celebrating being almost done with my dissertation with some grad photos taken at @bostonu.bsky.social and @bpl.boston.gov!

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Aarti Bodas