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

Table 3

Experimental group
Pupil	Before teaching	After teaching
42	“A zigzag ending in a waterfall”	“A curve that meanders and ends up in the sea forming a delta”
48	“A straight line that starts from a lake/plain and ends in a delta at the sea”	“Tributaries form a river that ends at a delta at the sea”
56	“A curved line that starts from a plain grass and ends at the sea”	“Tributaries that start in the mountains, join the river that discharges into the sea”.
59	“A curved line that starts from a waterfall in the mountains and ends up at the flowers”	“A curved line that starts from the mountains grass and discharges into the sea”