{"id":333578,"date":"2016-12-08T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=f992f3352cf75e7a8e3563de2615ef5c"},"modified":"2016-12-08T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T00:00:00","slug":"teaching-energy-using-an-integrated-science-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=333578","title":{"rendered":"Teaching energy using an integrated science approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite its relevance to all scientific domains, the debate surrounding the teaching of energy is<br \/>\nstill open. The main point remains the problems students have in understanding some aspects of the<br \/>\nenergy concept and in applying their knowledge to the comprehension of natural phenomena. In this<br \/>\npaper, we present a research-based interdisciplinary approach to the teaching of energy in which the<br \/>\nfirst and second laws of thermodynamics were used to interpret physical, chemical and biological<br \/>\nprocesses. The contents of the three disciplines (physics, chemistry, biology) were reconstructed<br \/>\nfocusing on six basic aspects of energy (forms, transfer, transformation, conservation, degradation,<br \/>\nand entropy) and using common teaching methodologies. The module was assessed with 39 secondary<br \/>\nschool students (aged 15\u201316) using a 30-question research instrument and a treatment\/control group<br \/>\nmethodology. Analysis of students\u2019 learning outcomes suggests a better understanding of the energy<br \/>\nconcept&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite its relevance to all scientific domains, the debate surrounding the teaching of energy is<br \/>\nstill open. The main point remains the problems students have in understanding some aspects of the<br \/>\nenergy concept and in applying their knowledge to the&#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-333578","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\/333578","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=333578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}