An Investigation of Hand-Drawn Representations of Rivers by Fifth-Grade Students in Greek Elementary Schools

Table 2

Control group
Pupil	Before teaching	After teaching
12	“A straight line that starts from Mornos Reservoir and ends up in Athens”	“A curved line that starts from the mountain and ends up in a lake”
16	“A curved line that starts from the grass and ends at the trees”	“A straight line that starts from the forests and ends at some rocks”
30	“A curved line that starts from the mountain and ends up in a lake or in the sea, but I prefer the lake”	“A curved line that starts from the mountain and ends up in a lake”
34	“A straight line that starts from a rock with flowers and ends up in culture” (the pupil probably means city)	“A curved line that starts from the mountain and ends up in a village. The mountain and the village are not shown”