learning-science-concepts· Regarding aspects of learners' scientific conceptions; understanding the learning process; and facilitating science learning.
Folks I think MIE and BC have a lot of common ground in cognitive reconstruction. For those who aren't familiar with BC: 40/50 years ago counselling meant...
CREATIVE SCIENCE: Opportunities to Support Innovation in Science Teaching In advance of setting up a national network of science learning centres in 2004, the...
I have received an e-mail from Dr. Epstein, working at Woods Hole in the Marine Biology laboratory. Dr. Epstein kindly suggested that members of the list might...
I think I can make a concept map with these concepts but right now I'm too busy to do it now. I hope to see some more comments on this from others. Anyway I...
For colleagues teaching thermodynamics, or interested in the topic: I have been indirectly sent a copy of a paper called INTRODUCING LOGIC IN CHEMICAL...
... Date: 18 February 2003 15:12 +0200 From: Georgios TSAPARLIS <gtseper@...> Subject: CERAPIE (CERP) / New |ssue Dear Colleagues I am glad to announce...
Could a lecture start with "Today we are going to test the second law of thermodynamics"?!? To be more concrete, I am refering you to fig. 6-7 on p. 112 in W....
... thermodynamics"?!? ... The realistic scenario: The teacher never mentions the problem because, in accordance with the metaphor "perpetuum mobile of the...
... Challenging the second law is quite peculiar among heresies. Thermodynamics is a deductive, tree-like science and disproving the second law can be likened...
Perhaps the most dangerous situation in a deductive science is one in which conclusions are derived from a set of inconsistent premises (all the premises in...
I think the rational side of science should be something we aim to get across in teaching sciences at all levels - to complement our teaching of the creative...
... hand ... limited ... Let me suggest a test. One is told to take for granted that Q is a corollary of P, where P and Q are some propositions. Then one is ...
As a newcomer to these discussions and a teacher following the governments KS3 science strategy I am embarking on producing at least a bank of resources, at...
In 2000 I taught in East Anglia. Having come from NZ where constructivists have captured the nation's curriculum (or at least made constructivist science...
I find it amusing that somebody should show such unrestrained and indiscriminate support for constructivism in science education given for some of the highly...
Yes John at the moment we are trained to teach by National Curriculum numbers. As with painting with numbers this gives a presentable canvas that can be...
Eric is quite right: however - the principles of constructivism in science education are derived from empirical evidence from science teaching/learning and...
... I think in some cases this type of education is impossible. Consider, for instance, the concept of entropy. All textbooks define the entropy through dS =...
OK - the constructivist theory of learning has a lot going for it. However, the way of teaching which has been developed in view of the theory clearly has a...
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I would need to know what Jenny means by THE way of teaching - I suspect she refers to the approach in the published CLiSP schemes(?) ... as Robin Millar...
... 1. Chemical Misconceptions: Prevention, Diagnosis and Cure (by someone called Taber, so not a disinterested suggestion I confess!) should be in all...
What is needed, in my view, is some serious theoretical work in which educational constructivism is clearly differentiated from philosophical constructivism or...
Yes, I was thinking of the approach begun by CLIS, but see also the SPACE research project (I am a primary specialist). I don't see how chalk & talk could be...
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Sociologists believe that all knowledge is a human construct. Science is no different from other subjects in that all scientic theories, models, and...
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... I am afraid misconceptions emerge later. "Warmth on our skin" can be caused by heat as well. Perhaps the teacher would like children to know that light is...
... Or at least, not always. Consider light from the (hot) sun which is absorbed on the (cooler) earth. If we define heat as 'energy in the process of being...
Concerning the conceptual problems commented in the message repeated below, I would like to add the following thoughts: One has to distinguish between the...
