Finding the Optimum Level of Simplification: The Case of Teaching about Heat and Temperature.

Taber, Keith S.

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ERIC Number: EJ638139

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2000

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Finding the Optimum Level of Simplification: The Case of Teaching about Heat and Temperature.

Taber, Keith S.

Physics Education, v35 n5 p320-25 Sep 2000

Discusses instructional approaches on how to teach introductory thermal physics. Analyzes the relationship between heat and temperature and questions to what degree physics can be simplified. (Contains 22 references.) (YDS)

Descriptors: Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education, Energy, Heat, Learning Strategies, Physics, Science Education, Teaching Methods, Temperature

Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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