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Velentzas, Athanasios; Halkia, Krystallia – Research in Science Education, 2011
In this work an attempt is made to explore the possible value of using Thought Experiments (TEs) in teaching physics to upper secondary education students. Specifically, a qualitative research project is designed to investigate the extent to which the Thought Experiment (TE) called "Heisenberg's Microscope", as it has been transformed by…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Physics, Laboratory Equipment, Secondary School Science
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Ravanis, Konstantinos; Pantidos, Panagiotis; Vitoratos, Evangelos – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2009
Children's mental representations about physical concepts and phenomena play a vital role in the learning process. This is confirmed by the data derived from relevant researches which demonstrate that the students formulate incompatible ideas compared with the scientific ones. In this research we investigate the representations of 14-15 years old…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Learning Processes, Adolescents, Magnets
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Papageorgiou, George; Johnson, Philip – International Journal of Science Education, 2005
This paper addresses the question of whether particle ideas help or hinder young pupils' understanding of changes of state and dissolving. Two matched groups in a primary school in Greece (ages 10/11, n = 20 and n = 19) were respectively taught one of two parallel lesson schemes. Covering the same phenomena, one scheme incorporated particle ideas,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Science Instruction, Scientific Principles