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This interpretive case study describes how students, their parents and teacher identified specific characteristics of a classroom learning environment that provided a scaffold for first graders to engage in science inquiry. Using the hermeneutic-dialectic process of negotiating consensus, a shared description of five components of a science inquiry classroom learning environment is described. Specific...