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Interviewer (me): So what do you mean by an atom, what's an atom? Amy (Y10): An atom is er the smallest particle, in something, and everything is made up of...
Peter, a Y7 student, talks of a gas trying to fill the room or trying to escape from a bottle. Clearly this is not technically correct, but does that matter?...
Keith, Â The URLÂ that you put in this message has about four or five spaces in it. These need to be deleted so that people can click on the link. Â You can...
Keith,  I have a couple of comments:  1) I cannot see a reason for ever using anthropomorphic language. It may sound a little dumber and therefore more...
Hi Richard I used to be quite surprised at how strongly students used anthropomorphic expressions, and at the notion that teacher might try to 'explain'...
Teaching analogies can be very useful, but as always in teaching science there is much scope for things to go wrong: So, current flow increases after passing a...
The analogy remains useful; once the student's conception evolves to the extent that (s)he is able to challenge the simile you know that development is taking...
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I've added a couple of new examples of 'fragmentation' learning impediments - where students do not always make the connections we might hope for in their...
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Not exactly an unusual one, but if pupils know what particles are (specks, grains, etc.), and we tell them everything is made of particles, then perhaps we...
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Happy new year to all on the list. I hope your teaching goes well in 2010. Recent addition to the examples on the science learning doctor webpages: Energy can...
Paraffin gets used up when burnt It does, of course, but that's not a helpful way of thinking in science lessons. I've posted this example of Y7 Sophia...
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I've added two linked examples of electrical misconceptions from a Y10 pupil. These both relate to her model of electrical resistance. Firstly she through...
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A year 8 pupil who had been studying how different types of rock are formed tells me how sand is formed, and how sandstone looks "just looks like it's made out...
Y8 (c.12 year old) student Sophia told me that light is reflected back out of the eyes when we see - reflecting (sic) a historical model that of sight that was...
Is it counter-intuitive that something like iron could exist in a vapour form - even after we have studied the states of matter, and learnt how different...
