Teaching and Learning of Energy in K – 12 Education edited by Robert F. Chen, Arthur Eisenkraft, David Fortus, Joseph Krajcik, Knut Neumann, Jeffrey Nordine, Allison Scheff.

Teaching and Learning of Energy in K – 12 Education

This volume presents current thoughts, research, and findings that were presented at a summit focusing on energy as a cross-cutting concept in education, involving scientists, science education researchers and science educators from across the world. The chapters cover four key questions: what shoul...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chen, Robert F.
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service), Knovel (Firm)
Other Authors: Eisenkraft, Arthur, Fortus, David, Krajcik, Joseph S., Neumann, Knut, Nordine, Jeffrey, Scheff, Allison
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Subjects:
Education.
Science > Study and teaching.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A Physicist’s Musings on Teaching about Energy
  • A Space Physicist’s Perspective on Energy Transformations and Implications for Teaching about Energy at All Levels
  • Conservation of Energy: An Analytical Tool for Student Accounts of Carbon-Transforming Processes
  • Developing Energy Conception of Students in Chemistry: Research on the Learning and Teaching of Energy
  • Teaching and Learning the Physics Energy Concept
  • Mapping Energy in the Boston Public Schools Curriculum
  • Developing and Using Distractor-Driven Multiple-Choice Assessments Aligned to Ideas about Energy Forms, Transformation, Transfer, and Conservations
  • Towards a Research-Informed Teaching Sequence for Energy
  • Contextual Dimensions of the Energy Concept and Implications for Energy Teaching and Learning
  • A Tale of Two Energies: What Do History, Language, and Research Tell Us about Students’ Understanding of Energy?
  • Distinctive Features and Underlying Rationale of a Philosophically-Informed Approach for Energy Teaching
  • Repairing Engineering Students’ Misconceptions about Energy and Thermodynamics
  • Looking through the Energy Lens: A Proposed Learning Progression for Energy in Grades 3-5
  • Opportunities for Reasoning about Energy within Elementary School Engineering Experiences
  • The Energy Project: Constructing a Sustainable Foundation for Thinking and Learning about Energy in the 21st Century
  • Launching the Space Shuttle by Making Water: The Chemists View of Energy
  • Several Often-Neglected Perspectives of Energy in Chemical Education
  • Energy in Chemical Systems
  • Conclusion and Future Directions.

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