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da Fonseca Moraes Batista, Renata; Silva, Cibelle Celestino – Science & Education, 2019
In this project, we worked in partnership with school teachers who are frequent users of experimental kits available for loan to schools using the historical-investigative approach. The original kits bring a traditional approach to experimentation, without the presence of the history of science. We developed and implemented new guides to the kits,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Teachers, Science Experiments, History
Rutt, Alexis; Mumba, Frackson – Science & Education, 2019
Despite its positive impact on students' understanding of the nature of science and science content knowledge, few secondary science teachers incorporate the history of science into their instruction. This article describes the effects of an online history of science course on preservice teachers' perceptions of and content and pedagogical…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Literacy, Science Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Chamizo, Jose A. – Science & Education, 2012
The graphic organizer called here heuristic diagram as an improvement of Gowin's Vee heuristic is proposed as a tool to teach history of science. Heuristic diagrams have the purpose of helping students (or teachers, or researchers) to understand their own research considering that asks and problem-solving are central to scientific activity. The…
Descriptors: Semantics, Heuristics, Semantic Differential, Instructional Materials
Heeffer, Albrecht – Science & Education, 2011
Historical studies on the development of mathematical concepts will help mathematics teachers to relate their students' difficulties in understanding to conceptual problems in the history of mathematics. We argue that one popular tool for teaching about numbers, the number line, may not be fit for early teaching of operations involving negative…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Instruction, Instructional Materials, History
Dedes, Christos – Science & Education, 2005
James Wandersee asked in 1986: "Can History of Science help science educators anticipate students" misconceptions?. This paper aims to answer the same question by attempting a comparative bibliographical study between the assumptions of early philosophers and the conceptions of children relating to the roles of light and the eye in the process of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Vision, Instructional Materials, Misconceptions