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ERIC Number: EJ1354641
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 7
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0036-8555
EISSN: EISSN-1943-4871
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How Are They Connected? Teaching Electric Circuits and Nature of Scientific Knowledge Aspects to 11th-Grade Students Using a Black-Box Activity
Koumara, Anna; Plakitsi, Katerina; Lederman, Norman
Science Teacher, v89 n5 p29-35 May-Jun 2022
How do scientists make inferences for something they cannot directly observe? The Black Box approach seems ideal to help students understand how scientists work. Black Boxes are sealed units; their interior is not accessible. The effort to determine their possible content (internal structure) demands successive modifications in hypothesis, measurements, and observations, without opening the Box. There can be more than one suggested inference for its internal structure, compatible with all observations. This lesson asks students to identify Nature of Scientific Knowledge aspects using a Black Box problem-based activity on electric circuits, and was part of a greater project on the Nature of Science in an 11th-grade science class in Greece.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education; Grade 11
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Greece
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