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| By: Richard Konicek-Moran |
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A chapter from Everyday Science Mysteries: Stories for Inquiry-Based Science Teaching
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Heat and cold are often difficult concepts for children to understand. First, our everyday sloppy language gives them a predisposition to such common misconceptions as cold being a substance that moves from place to place. Our colloquial language often... [view full summary]
Heat and cold are often difficult concepts for children to understand. First, our everyday sloppy language gives them a predisposition to such common misconceptions as cold being a substance that moves from place to place. Our colloquial language often reinforces the existence of “cold energy,” when it is scientifically acceptable to refer only to heat as a form of energy that is transferred from a warmer object to a cooler one and that cold is an absence of heat. Therefore, this story tries to set the stage for discussions and inquiry into the nature of temperature and heat and to the fact that heat exchange is the cause of what scientists call a phase change—when something goes from liquid to solid or vice versa. In essence, this may be the students’ first encounter with the laws of thermodynamics. [hide full abstract]
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| Grade Level: Elementary School, Middle School |
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| By: Richard Konicek-Moran |
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A chapter from Everyday Science Mysteries: Stories for Inquiry-Based Science Teaching
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The mystery here has a lot to do with the life cycle of the insect in the cereal and what the various stages were that Emma found in the box. However, it is important that children get to know more about the most populous animals on our planet. It is... [view full summary]
The mystery here has a lot to do with the life cycle of the insect in the cereal and what the various stages were that Emma found in the box. However, it is important that children get to know more about the most populous animals on our planet. It is important for them to understand their life cycles, their behavior, and the role they play within the Earth’s ecosystems. Some can be most destructive and yet without many of them we would have no fruit or many kinds of vegetables whose flowers they pollinate, no honey, no beautiful butterflies and moths, no food for many animals and plants, and no decomposing of animals and plants that die. From the pedagogical point of view, insects invite inquiry into their behavior, their life cycles, and their adaptations to every climate and habitat known to humans. Get to know them—they are really cool! [hide full abstract]
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| By: Richard Konicek-Moran |
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A chapter from Everyday Science Mysteries: Stories for Inquiry-Based Science Teaching
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Children as well as adults are usually intrigued by the ideas of bargains. More seeds for less money is often enough to convince them to buy a larger, cheaper package. In this case, the children are savvy enough to question the value of either package.... [view full summary]
Children as well as adults are usually intrigued by the ideas of bargains. More seeds for less money is often enough to convince them to buy a larger, cheaper package. In this case, the children are savvy enough to question the value of either package. One seems overly expensive and the other too good to be true. Another common response among consumers of any age is that the more something costs, the better it must be. Implicit in this story is the question, “Which package is the best value?” This story presents a case and an opportunity for promoting the development of alert skepticism as young consumers. The story then suggests that the children can find out for themselves what differences, if any, there are between the two groups of seeds. In addition, it asks the children to decide what “better” might mean. It becomes their task to create the criteria upon which they will design their investigations and their predictions. [hide full abstract]
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