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Targeting Students' Science Misconceptions: Physical Science Concepts Using the Conceptual Change Model.
Joseph Stepans. Riverview, Fla.: Idea Factory, 1996.
Recommended grade level:
6-8+.
Targeting Students' Science Misconceptions, a teacher's guide containing directions for approximately 100 activities, is designed to help students identify and change their common, naive preconceptions and misconceptions about science topics. In doing these activities, students first state their ideas about a wide range of physical science concepts, and then they rethink or reconsider them after experimentation in the classroom.
Topics addressed in this guide include matter, density and buoyancy, air pressure, liquids, forces, levers, motion, pendulums, electricity, magnetism, heat, waves, sound, light and color, transformation of energy, and geometry. In an activity about force, work, and machines, for example, students are asked to decide which is the easiest way to move a heavy box from the floor to the top of a table (lifting straight up, using a pulley, or using an inclined plane). They try out the various options and come up with an answer based on their observations.
In addition to directions for activities, Targeting Students' Science Misconceptions includes background information for the teacher, a listing of representative student misconceptions related to each concept, a listing of sources of students' confusion and misconceptions, and teaching notes.
Price:
$24.95 (ISBN 1-885041-12-8).
Publisher/supplier:
Idea Factory.
Materials:
Available locally, or from commercial suppliers.
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