Results

Children

From our research it can be seen that young children tend to give explanations that are based upon their own experiences or ideas they have developed from their own observations. The responses the children gave are what we expected based on our prior research, specifically the child who believes God made the wind and the child who identifies a statue as the cause of wind.

Teenagers and Adults

These age groups demonstrate basic knowledge of some scientific concepts, are capable of explaining their logic, and use some scientific terms although they are not certain of their responses. The second question on wind strengths proved to be even more problematic and only a few attempted an answer. In fact no interviewee was capable of producing a correct and complete explanation. This was surprising because we had expected at least some interviewees to construct an explanation closer to the true answer.