{"id":302817,"date":"2016-10-10T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=b4d1bed3ece63ca29e6c9c0a8e83284a"},"modified":"2016-10-10T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T23:00:00","slug":"hidden-circuits-and-argumentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=302817","title":{"rendered":"Hidden circuits and argumentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the relevance of DC circuits in everyday life and schools, they have been shown to cause<br \/>\nnumerous learning difficulties at various school levels. In the course of this article, we present a<br \/>\nflexible method for teaching DC circuits at lower secondary level. The method is labelled as hidden<br \/>\ncircuits, and the essential idea underlying hidden circuits is in hiding the actual wiring of DC<br \/>\ncircuits, but to make their behaviour evident for pupils. Pupils are expected to find out the wiring<br \/>\nof the circuit which should enhance their learning of DC circuits. We present two possible ways to<br \/>\nutilise hidden circuits in a classroom. First, they can be used to test and enhance pupils\u2019<br \/>\nconceptual understanding when pupils are expected to find out which one of the offered circuit<br \/>\ndiagram options corresponds to the actual circuit shown. This method aims to get pupils to evaluate<br \/>\nthe circuits holistically rather than locally, and as a part of that aim this method highlights any<br \/>\nlearning di&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the relevance of DC circuits in everyday life and schools, they have been shown to cause<br \/>\nnumerous learning difficulties at various school levels. In the course of this article, we present a<br \/>\nflexible method for teaching DC circuits at lower se&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-302817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}