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Eurasian Journal of Physics and Chemistry Education
A Thematic Review of Some Studies Investigating Students’ Alternative Conceptions About Energy 
  
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M. Kurna and A. Saglam-Arslan, Eurasian J. Phys. Chem. Educ., 3 (1), 51-74 (2011).
This article reviews and synthesizes 25 studies on students' alternative conceptions about energy. Many papers chosen are from the Eurasian literature and therefore this paper…
https://www.ijpce.org/index.php/IJPCE/article/view/189
Problem solving, scaffolding and learning 
  
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Helping students to construct understanding of physics concepts and develop good problem solving skills is a central goal in many physics classrooms. This thesis examines students’…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11792&DocID=2649
Intuitive ontologies for energy in physics 
  
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R. Scherr, H. Close, and S. McKagan, PERC 2011 Proceedings, 343-346.
The nature of energy is not typically an explicit topic of physics instruction. Nonetheless, participants in physics courses that involve energy are frequently saying what kind of…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11697&DocID=2574
Energy in Action: The Construction of Physics Ideas in Multiple Modes 
  
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E. Close, H. Close, S. McKagan, and R. Scherr, PERC 2010 Proceedings, 105-108.
In a course organized around the development of diverse representations, no single mode of expression offers a complete picture of participants’ understanding of the nature of…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10400&DocID=1872
An Evolving Model for Seeing Colored Objects: A Case Study Progression 
  
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E. Kahle, R. Scherr, and H. Close, PERC 2010 Proceedings, 185-188.
We document the experience of a single participant in a course for secondary teacher professional development in order to track the changes in her thinking about how light interacts…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10445&DocID=1903
Facilitating Strategies for Solving Work-Energy Problems in Graphical and Equational Representations 
  
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D. Nguyen, E. Gire, and N. Rebello, PERC 2010 Proceedings, 241-244.
Our previous research has suggested that the major difficulty students have when solving physics problems posed in graphical and equational representations is due to students’…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10463&DocID=1923
“Energy Theater”: Using The Body Symbolically To Understand Energy 
  
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R. Scherr, H. Close, S. McKagan, and E. Close, PERC 2010 Proceedings, 293-296.
In what we call “embodied learning activities,” instructors deliberately arrange for human bodies, or parts of the body, to stand in for entities in the description or explanation of…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10483&DocID=1938
The Beginnings of Energy in Third Graders’ Reasoning 
  
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J. Radoff, F. Goldberg, D. Hammer, and S. Fargason, PERC 2010 Proceedings, 269-272.
We present snippets of third-graders discussing ideas about energy as part of their considering and comparing different ways to make a toy car start moving. This case study…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10474&DocID=1930
Criteria for Creating and Categorizing Forms of Energy 
  
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S. McKagan, R. Scherr, E. Close, and H. Close, PERC 2011 Proceedings, 279-282.
Traditional instruction on energy often presents forms of energy as a seemingly arbitrary list to be memorized, with little discussion of the meaning or purpose of these forms.…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11867&DocID=2715
Classical Mechanics/Math Methods I: Course Materials 
  
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S. Pollock; Publishers: Science Education Initiative at the University of Colorado and University of Colorado at Boulder - Online Resource
This website provides the materials to teach a transformed sophomore-level classical mechanics/math methods course. The provided course is the first semester of a two-semester…
https://www.physport.org/curricula/CUBoulder/classical
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