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Dragoni, Michele – Physics Teacher, 2020
The acceleration of gravity in Earth's interior is determined by the density distribution in Earth. A remarkable result is that the acceleration is approximately constant all over the mantle, which amounts to about 84% of Earth's volume. This result can be explained by a simple two-layer model of Earth, showing that the constancy of the…
Descriptors: Physics, Scientific Concepts, Earth Science, Astronomy
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Gróf, Andrea – Physics Teacher, 2021
Owing to the presence of the Coriolis effect, the rotation of Earth has a multitude of surprising consequences that make the mechanics of the atmosphere or the oceans different from that of a fluid in a container. Since the Coriolis effect also captures the imagination of screenwriters, contributing to the continual exposure of students to bogus…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Motion, Physics
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Kirsty Dunnett; Anders Mattias Lundmark – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
'A lack of prior knowledge in the other discipline' is often given by geoscience instructors to explain why students struggle to apply knowledge from other disciplines to the Earth. We examine this assumption by considering the disciplinary crossing of buoyancy (physics) to isostasy (geoscience). We investigate the teachers' perspective through…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Earth Science, Interdisciplinary Approach, Physics
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Johnson, Philip – School Science Review, 2020
Earthbound manifestations of gravity in falling objects are distorted by the large mass and size of the Earth. Movement is also affected by air resistance. This article questions whether an approach based on everyday observations is necessarily the best starting point for introducing the idea of Newtonian gravity. Instead, a theoretical approach…
Descriptors: Science Education, Earth Science, Misconceptions, Scientific Concepts
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Sagdiç, Ali; Sahin, Elvan – Journal of Science Learning, 2023
An immense body of literature on astronomy studies has provided evidence that individuals perceive the lunar phases concept as difficult. Furthermore, many studies have shown erroneous explanations or alternative conceptions of lunar phases. However, there is also a need to understand how individuals construct an explanation of the Moon's phases.…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Science Instruction, Concept Formation, Scientific Concepts
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Widayoko, Agus; Femilia, Praptika Septi; Lesmono, Albertus Djoko; Sudjatmi, Heri; Prastiwi, Vicki Dian; Munfarikha, Ninik – Anatolian Journal of Education, 2019
Scientific literacy is one of the basic competencies that must be possessed in the XXI century. These competencies include explaining scientific phenomena, designing and evaluating scientific investigations, and interpreting scientific data and facts. These three competency indicators must be embedded in students to help them to solve problems and…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Scientific Concepts, High School Students, Foreign Countries
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Vieyra, Rebecca E.; Bailey, Janelle M.; Lopez, Ramon E.; McAuliffe, Carla – Physics Education, 2020
This paper describes the results of a survey administered to members of the American Association of Physics Teachers and the National Earth Science Teachers Association to measure the nature and frequency of the integration of Earth and space science (E&SS) concepts into physics courses, as well as the need and interest of physics teachers to…
Descriptors: Physics, Earth Science, Space Sciences, Science Instruction
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Al Sultan, Adam Ali – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2020
Self-efficacy plays a key role in determining teaching practices. Still, concerns regarding the low science self-efficacy beliefs held by elementary teachers have raised questions about the effectiveness of teacher preparation programs. Previous research has been restricted to labeling preservice elementary teachers as having high, medium, or low…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Science, Biology, Earth Science
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Walag, Angelo Mark P.; Fajardo, Maria Teresa M.; Bacarrisas, Prosiebeth G.; Guimary, Faith M. – International Journal of Instruction, 2022
Science teacher's self-efficacy has been at the center of many investigations on students' achievement in science, teacher burnout, and teacher performance. While overly studied, this construct has not been examined with scientific literacy in depth. Thus, this study aims to identify the influence of science teacher's scientific literacy on their…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Self Efficacy, Correlation
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Volkwyn, Trevor Stanton; Airey, John; Gregorcic, Bor; Heijkenskjöld, Filip – Designs for Learning, 2019
In this paper we discuss the role of transduction in the teaching and learning of science. We video-filmed pairs of upper-secondary physics students working with a laboratory task designed to encourage transduction (Bezemer & Kress, 2008). The students were simply instructed to use a hand-held electronic measurement device (IOLab) to find the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Physics, Science Laboratories, Measurement
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Daus, Stephan; Nilsen, Trude; Braeken, Johan – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2019
This study offers curriculum developers, teachers, and science education researchers a fine-grained profile on strengths and weaknesses in specific science domains and topics. The study involved a representative sample of 3844 Norwegian pupils in grade 8. Their responses on 216 TIMSS items in 18 topics from 4 science domains were modelled in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Science Achievement
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Mottmann, J. – Physics Teacher, 2013
While on a vacation flight from Hawaii to California, I observed sunset occurring on clouds far below. The view triggered a vague memory about a fun article 1 published more than three decades earlier on the topic of "Doubling Your Sunsets." Simple observations from my flight made it possible to compute the Earth's radius.
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Earth Science, Scientific Concepts, Computation
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Atkinson, Lucy; Dunlop, Lynda; Bennett, Judith; Fairhurst, Peter; Moore, Alistair – School Science Review, 2020
'Best Evidence Science Teaching' (BEST) is a collection of open-access, research-evidence-informed resources for science teaching at 11-14. BEST includes progression toolkits comprising sequenced learning steps, diagnostic questions and response activities. Case studies illustrate how teachers are using BEST resources. Observations and interview…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Secondary School Science
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DiLisi, Gregory A.; Rarick, Richard A. – Physics Teacher, 2015
November 10, 2015, marked the 40th anniversary of the sinking of the "S. S. Edmund Fitzgerald," a Great Lakes bulk cargo freighter that suddenly and mysteriously sank during a severe winter storm on Lake Superior. A year after the sinking, Canadian folksinger Gordon Lightfoot wrote and recorded the ballad "The Wreck of the 'Edmund…
Descriptors: Accidents, Transportation, Water, Oceanography
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Abdul-Razzaq, Wathiq; Biller, R. Dale; Wilson, Thomas H. – Physics Education, 2015
There is no doubt that integrated concepts inspire students and take learning to a new level. As we fly, we fly through the magnetic field of the Earth. We used the concepts involved in flying to develop an exercise that bonds geology, physics and life sciences.
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Magnets, Physics
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