{"id":541647,"date":"2017-09-22T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=735bc7774e805584232aa335f53776dc"},"modified":"2017-09-22T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T23:00:00","slug":"teaching-einsteinian-physics-at-schools-part-1-models-and-analogies-for-relativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=541647","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Einsteinian physics at schools: part 1, models and analogies for relativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Einstein-First project aims to change the paradigm of school science teaching through the<br \/>\nintroduction of modern Einsteinian concepts of space and time, gravity and quanta at an early age.<br \/>\nThese concepts are rarely taught to school students despite their central importance to modern<br \/>\nscience and technology. The key to implementing the Einstein-First curriculum is the development of<br \/>\nappropriate models and analogies. This paper is the first part of a three-paper series. It presents<br \/>\nthe conceptual foundation of our approach, based on simple physical models and analogies, followed<br \/>\nby a detailed description of the models and analogies used to teach concepts of general and special<br \/>\nrelativity. Two accompanying papers address the teaching of quantum physics (Part 2) and research<br \/>\noutcomes (Part 3).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Einstein-First project aims to change the paradigm of school science teaching through the<br \/>\nintroduction of modern Einsteinian concepts of space and time, gravity and quanta at an early age.<br \/>\nThese concepts are rarely taught to school students despi&#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-541647","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\/541647","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=541647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=541647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=541647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=541647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}