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Ceuppens, S.; Deprez, J.; Dehaene, W.; De Cock, M. – Physics Education, 2018
To improve the teaching and learning materials for a curriculum it is important to incorporate the findings from educational research. In light of this, we present creative exercises and experiments to elicit, confront and resolve misconceptions in geometrical optics. Since ray diagrams can be both the cause and the solution for many…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Optics, Creative Activities, Science Experiments
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Koumaras, P.; And Others – School Science Review, 1996
Focuses on the provision of meaningful counterintuitive experimental evidence for students while taking into account the relations of theory, instruments, and experimental data. Discusses the use of experiments designed to test pupils' conceptual framework during the teaching of introductory electricity. (JRH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Electricity, Foreign Countries
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Ehrlich, Robert; Hutchison, Mary Lynn – Physics Teacher, 1994
Shows that the conventional wisdom about the extreme inaccuracy of stopwatch measurements during the acceleration and free fall of objects is mistaken. (ZWH)
Descriptors: Acceleration (Physics), Misconceptions, Motion, Physics
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Peterson, Lars Ostrup; Justesen, Uffe – Physics Teacher, 1996
Presents a simple experiment--a marble rolling on a tilted desk--to introduce students to moving bodies. Makes difficult subjects such as measurement, calculus, modeling, and uncertainty easier to identify by putting them into a simple context. Discusses misconceptions, models, and measurements. (JRH)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Measurement, Mechanics (Physics)
Bishop, Beth A.; And Others – 1986
Designed to address the major conceptual problems associated with respiration and photosynthesis, this module can be used with high school students or college nonscience majors including those in elementary education. It is one in a series developed by the project Overcoming Critical Barriers to Learning in Nonmajors' Science Courses. The…
Descriptors: College Science, Higher Education, Learning Modules, Misconceptions
Bishop, Beth A.; Anderson, Charles W. – 1986
Designed to address the major conceptual problems associated with evolution and variation and survival in populations, this module can be used with high school students or college nonscience majors including those in elementary education. It is one in a series developed by the project "Overcoming Critical Barriers to Learning in Nonmajors'…
Descriptors: College Science, Ecology, Evolution, Genetics
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Hershey, David R. – Science Activities, 1992
Discusses traditional school demonstrations and experiments in hydrotropism. Explains that these experiments seem to "prove" hydrotropism, but yet most botanists reject hydrotropism. Teachers continue to teach the concept because it is logical and the experiments are simple. (PR)
Descriptors: Biology, Botany, Demonstrations (Educational), High Schools
Eaton, Janet; And Others – 1986
Designed to address the major conceptual problems associated with light and vision, appearances of surfaces, and color, this module can be used with high school students or college nonscience majors including those in elementary education. It is one in a series developed by the project "Overcoming Critical Barriers to Learning in Nonmajors'…
Descriptors: College Science, Color, Higher Education, Learning Modules