How do you picture electricity?
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- 1 July 1999
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Physics Education
- Vol. 34 (4) , 226-229
Abstract
What models do student teachers and pupils hold to help them explain electrical phenomena? Student teachers in Edinburgh have engaged in a small action research project to explore ways in which children picture what happens inside an electric circuit.Keywords
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