PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN’S IDEAS OF MIXING AND OF HEAT AS EXPRESSED IN A CLASSROOM SETTING

TitlePRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN’S IDEAS OF MIXING AND OF HEAT AS EXPRESSED IN A CLASSROOM SETTING
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2014
AuthorsHaglund, J, Jeppsson, F, Andersson, J
JournalJournal of Baltic Science Education
Volume13
Issue5
Start Page726–739
PaginationContinuous
Date PublishedOctober/2014
Type of ArticleOriginal article
ISSN1648-3898
Other NumbersICID: 1129104
Keywordschildren’s ideas, classroom setting, primary school
Abstract

This study investigates primary school children’s (7-8 year-old, N = 25) ideas of mixing of marbles and of heat, expressed in small-group predict-observe-explain exercises, and drawings representing the children’s own analogies in a classroom setting. The children were typically found to predict that marbles of two different colours would mix when rocked back and forth on a board. This idea of mixing is slightly more advanced than previously reported in the literature. The children’s ideas of heat included reference to warm objects, their own bodies when exercising, and the process of one warm solid object heating another object in direct contact. In addition, through scaffolding, some of the children expressed a substance view of heat. Finally, the potential and challenges in probing children’s ideas through a combination of data collection techniques in a classroom setting are reflected upon.

URLhttp://oaji.net/articles/2015/987-1450981715.pdf
DOI10.33225/jbse/14.13.726
Refereed DesignationRefereed
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