Danish, J. A., & Phelps, D. (2010). Kindergarten and First-Grade Students’ Representational Practices While Creating Storyboards of Honeybees Collecting Nectar. In K. Gomez, L. Lyons & J. Radinsky (Eds.), Learning in the Disciplines: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2010) – Volume 1, Full Papers (pp. 420-427). Chicago IL: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
 
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Danish, J. A., Peppler, K., & Phelps, D. (2010). BeeSign: designing to support mediated group inquiry of complex science by early elementary students. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (pp. 182-185). Barcelona, Spain: ACM.

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Peppler, K., Danish, J., Zaitlen, B., Glosson, D., Jacobs, A., & Phelps, D. (2010). BeeSim: leveraging wearable computers in participatory simulations with young children. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (pp. 246-249). Barcelona, Spain: ACM.

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Danish, J. A. (2010). The Primary Interactive Pathway: An Analytic Tool For Examining and Comparing Students’ Representational Activities. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.

Enyedy, N., Danish, J. A., & Delacruz, G. (2010). Play and Augmented Reality in Learning Physics: The SPASES project. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.

Artifact: BeeSign

BeeSign is a computer simulation designed to help young students observe the behavior of honeybees as they collect nectar and experiment with the result of changing either the behavior of the bees or the environment in which the hive is located. BeeSign was designed to be used on a smartboard with students and a teacher gathered around it to make predictions, observe the bees, and discuss the outcomes.
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Project: Cross-Curriculum Representational Practices (CCRP)

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Project: Semiotic Pivots and Activity Spaces for Elementary Science (SPASES)

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Danish, J. A. (2009). BeeSign: a Design Experiment to Teach Kindergarten and First Grade Students About Honeybees From a Complex Systems Perspective. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.