Sunal, Cynthia Szymanski; Coleman, Julianne M. - In: Social Studies Research and Practice 8 (2013) 3, pp. 21-41
An investigation of very young children’s perceptions of a natural disaster, a tornado, used a stratified random sample of 40 children, aged 4-5 years, from a population of 108 in ten classes. The study also investigated a research protocol for ascertaining prior knowledge through children’s...