Science Learning Doctors group: an inter-net discussion forum for exploring and exchanging ideas about specific student learning difficulties in science and...
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Science Learning Doctors group: an inter-net discussion forum for exploring and exchanging ideas about specific student learning difficulties in science and...
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Science Learning Doctors group: an inter-net discussion forum for exploring and exchanging ideas about specific student learning difficulties in science and...
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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Science Learning Doctors group: an inter-net discussion forum for exploring and exchanging ideas about specific student learning difficulties in science and...
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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Science Learning Doctors group: an inter-net discussion forum for exploring and exchanging ideas about specific student learning difficulties in science and...
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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Science Learning Doctors group: an inter-net discussion forum for exploring and exchanging ideas about specific student learning difficulties in science and...
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Science Learning Doctors group: an inter-net discussion forum for exploring and exchanging ideas about specific student learning difficulties in science and...
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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Science Learning Doctors group: an inter-net discussion forum for exploring and exchanging ideas about specific student learning difficulties in science and...
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Science Learning Doctors group: an inter-net discussion forum for exploring and exchanging ideas about specific student learning difficulties in science and...
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...
Whoops 'too heavy' of course, not 'to heavy'! ... -- Dr. Keith S. Taber University of Cambridge Faculty of Education...
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Science Learning Doctors group: an inter-net discussion forum for exploring and exchanging ideas about specific student learning difficulties in science and...
Talking to pupils sometimes reveals just how little we can safely assume. If you had a student who could tell you about the three states of matter, and about...
It is always worth considering how the same language that we use in science is treated in more general terms. Vaporisation would make a good example. ...
This is why we must be much more careful in how we describe things such as this. A number of teachers I've observed over the years have said that when a...
I apologise to colleagues for the spam message from JEANMDOUGLAS earlier today. This is a closed group, and the message originated from an email address of a...
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