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Berntsen, Madelene Losvik; Vik, Camilla Berge; Lykknes, Annette – Science & Education, 2023
The French natural philosopher Henri Victor Regnault (1810-1878) was one of many researchers who contributed to the development of the thermometer in the 19th century. In this paper, we use an example from Regnault's work to explore how the history of thermometry can provide a context for teaching upper-secondary chemistry students about the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Science History
Yeh, Yi-Fen; Dhurumraj, Thasmai; Ramnarain, Umesh – Science & Education, 2023
Developing students' understanding of and about science is an important educational goal. Learning the nature of science (NOS) has been recognized as a critical component of science literacy, affecting how students (our future citizens) make informed decisions. Textbooks can be useful teaching materials if the content presented aligns with…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Foreign Countries, Physical Sciences, Textbooks
Cramer, Claes – Physics Education, 2022
The principle of relativity is of fundamental importance in practice when we are solving problems in physics since the axiom states that the result of any physical experiment is the same when performed with identical initial conditions relative to any inertial coordinate system. Hence, conceptual knowledge of coordinate systems is central in any…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, Scientific Principles
Guan-Jie Luo; Pei-Hsuan Wu; Ming-Le Lin; Fang-Fei Chou; Jim Jr-Min Lin – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
A simple photometric device was built to measure the kinetics of the title reaction. The device consisted of a green light-emitting diode (centered at 520 nm), a sample vial, a photodiode, and an Arduino microcontroller board. These parts were mounted on a black poly(lactic acid) holder which was manufactured by utilizing three-dimensional…
Descriptors: Kinetics, Chemistry, Measurement Equipment, Color
Wong, Kin Son; Wong, Hang – Physics Teacher, 2022
The law of conservation of momentum is a fundamental law of nature. It states that the momentum of an isolated system is conserved. In high school or introductory-level physics courses, for simplicity, teachers and textbooks always use collisions in one dimension as the examples to introduce the concept of conservation of momentum. To solve simple…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Kinetics, Motion, Scientific Concepts
Vidal, Xabier Cid; Manzano, Ramon Cid; Lema, Isaac Valiña – Physics Teacher, 2022
In this work, we present an experimental approximation to the study of the phenomenon of radioactivity in secondary schools, taking as an analogy the process of release of carbon dioxide in a carbonated beverage. In this way, we intend to facilitate the approach to the mathematical formalism and to the graphical description of this phenomenon, as…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Principles, Radiation, Secondary School Science
Hull, Michael M.; Nakayama, Shizuka; Tosa, Sachiko – Physics Teacher, 2023
Newton's laws are a ubiquitous topic in introductory physics instruction. One common problem involves asking what will happen if you stick your finger into a cup of water sitting on a scale. A way to solve the problem would be to first recognize that the water exerts a buoyant force upward on the finger, which students can recognize as being the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Scientific Principles, Concept Formation
Nasser Mansour – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The existing literature lacks a precise understanding of how online facilitation and dialogic discussions can positively impact students' comprehension of the Nature of Science (NoS). This study delves into the experiences of students and facilitators engaged in synchronous and asynchronous online dialogic discussions and e-facilitation to enhance…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Synchronous Communication, Electronic Learning, Scientific Principles
Yuze He – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2025
Chinese 2017 General High School Physics Curriculum Standards explicitly include understanding the nature of science (NOS) as core literacy for students. History, philosophy of science, and sociology of science (HPSS) education is an important way to promote students' understanding of the nature of science. In this context, this study analyzed the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Science, Science Curriculum, Physics
Yi Ding; Guangtian Zhu; Qiuxin Bian; Lei Bao – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
The purpose of this study is to examine how students may hold coexisting and competing conceptual ideas and how students' uses of such ideas may evolve during the process of conceptual change by combining two complementary methods including model analysis and the conceptual framework model of knowledge integration. Conceptual change is fundamental…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Attitude Change, Concept Formation, Science Education
Stadermann, Kirsten; Goedhart, Martin – Physics Education, 2022
High school students' difficulties with quantum physics (QP) are partly due to their limited understanding of the nature of science (NOS). The essence of QP can only be understood with informed views about NOS aspects such as the role of models and the relevance of controversies between physicists. Inversely, QP is an ideal topic for teaching…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Quantum Mechanics, High School Students
Juan Paulo Jimenez Pavez – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Nature of Scientific Knowledge (NOSK) and Nature of Scientific Inquiry (NOSI) are important components of scientific literacy and important educational objectives in science education. Recent literature theorizes that understanding both NOSK and NOSI increases students' understanding of science content knowledge. However, this assumption has yet…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Inquiry, Science Process Skills, Evolution
Bergman, Daniel J. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity for teachers to explicitly address nature of science (NOS) themes during instruction. Aligned with key NOS categories in the "Next Generation Science Standards," this article discusses events and trends from the pandemic that teachers can use to help students understand values and methods of…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Science Instruction, Scientific Principles
Kostøl, Kristine Bakkemo; Bøe, Maria Vetleseter; Skår, Aud Ragnhild – Science & Education, 2023
Developing students' understanding of the nature of science (NOS) is seen as critical for educating scientifically literate citizens, and has emerged as an important curricular goal internationally. In Norway, a new curriculum reform has recently been implemented, intended to improve the Norwegian education in several ways. The reform aims to…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Improvement
Galili, Igal; Goren, Ehud – Science & Education, 2023
Regular disciplinary instruction of introductory physics at high school often misses a holistic perspective of the subject matter, its structure, and hierarchy. We have considered the domain of classical mechanics as taught at school and provided such a perspective in the form of a summative lecture which frames content in the triadic structure…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Mechanics (Physics), Science History, Motion