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Tural, Guner; Akdeniz, Ali Riza; Alev, Nedim – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2010
Weight is one of the basic concepts of physics. Its gravitational definition accommodates difficulties for students to understand the state of weightlessness. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of materials based on 5E teaching model and related to weightlessness on science student teachers' learning. The sample of the study was 9…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Science Education, Preservice Teacher Education
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Hart, Christina – Research in Science Education, 2008
Models are important both in the development of physics itself and in teaching physics. Historically, the consensus models of physics have come to embody particular ontological assumptions and epistemological commitments. Educators have generally assumed that the consensus models of physics, which have stood the test of time, will also work well…
Descriptors: Fundamental Concepts, Teaching Models, Physics, Concept Formation
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Hoekzema, Dick; van den Berg, Ed; Schooten, Gert; van Dijk, Leo – Physics Education, 2007
The combination of mathematical and conceptual difficulties makes teaching quantum physics at secondary schools a precarious undertaking. With many of the conceptual difficulties being unavoidable, simplifying the mathematics becomes top priority. The particle/wave-in-a-box provides a teaching model which includes many aspects of serious …
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Models, Physics, Secondary Education
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Hayes, Robert E. – Physics Teacher, 1985
Compares and contrasts high school physics philosophies, curricula, and textbooks of early 1900s to present, indicating that current textbooks are teacher and subject-oriented, lack examples of daily life, and are highly mathematical and too abstract. Suggestions for helping students experience success and improve self-esteem (which leads to…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, High Schools, Physics, Science Education
Stefanich, Greg P.; Egelston-Dodd, Judy, Ed. – 1995
This proceedings report includes papers presented at a conference on teaching science to students with disabilities. In the first paper, "Family Pedigrees: A Model Lesson Illustrating Strategies for Teaching Students with Disabilities in a Mainstreamed High School Biology Class" (Kathleen Ball and Edward C. Keller, Jr.), strategies are described…
Descriptors: Biology, Disabilities, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education