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Bozzo, Giacomo; Lopez, Victor; Couso, Digna; Monti, Francesca – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
The role of virtual simulations in the evolution of primary school students' mental models about electrostatics is investigated by analysing the answers of two groups of 9-10 years old pupils inside instructional sequences that combine two hands-on activities using balloons and jackets with the same activities using PhET simulations: one group…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Schemata (Cognition), Computer Simulation
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Fuchs, Hans U.; Corni, Federico; Pahl, Angelika – Education Sciences, 2021
We experience (perceive, act upon and react to, and conceptualize) dynamical processes in nature as agentive. Expressed differently, we experience events as resulting from activities and interactions of "Forces of Nature" (such as wind, light, heat, fluids, electricity, substances, and motion) that are conceived of as powerful agents…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Drama, Simulation