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Using Games to Build and Improve 10th Grade Students' Understanding of the Concept of Chemical Bonding and the Representation of Molecules
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Molvinger, Karine; Lautier, Gaëtan; Ayral, Rose-Marie – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
This article focuses on the case study of the concept of covalent bonding for 10th grade pupils in France. On the basis of their conceptions and difficulties, didactical engineering has been established that should lead to an improvement in the understanding of this concept. After analyzing the pupils' difficulties, we reflected on the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Grade 10, Secondary School Science, Teaching Methods
The Use of Social Semiotic Multimodality and Joint Action Theory to Describe Teaching Practices: Two Cases Studies with Experienced Teachers
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Moro, Luciana; Mortimer, Eduardo F.; Tiberghien, Andrée – Classroom Discourse, 2020
The aim of this study is to better understand how teachers use various embodied semiotic modes -- speech, gestures, gaze, and proxemics -- when they present scientific content to the entire class. To analyse the multimodal practices of these teachers, we integrated the social semiotic theory of multimodality and the joint action theory in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Communication, Teaching Methods, Nonverbal Communication
Should Frames of Reference Be Enacted in Astronomy Instruction?
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Rollinde, Emmanuel; Decamp, Nicolas; Derniaux, Catherine – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
The experiment that we present in this paper explores the teaching of Galilean motion principles observed in different reference frames, in an astronomical context. All grade 10 students in a French high school (the lycée Condorcet, Val de Marne) participated in two successive teaching-learning sessions, designed within the theoretical framework…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Astronomy, Science Instruction, Learning Processes
Upper Secondary French Students, Chemical Transformations and the "Register of Models": A Cross-Sectional Study
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Cokelez, Aytekin; Dumon, Alain; Taber, Keith S. – International Journal of Science Education, 2008
The purpose of this study is to identify how upper secondary school French students (Grade 10-12) interpret chemical transformation with regards to the changes within molecules and atoms, and in terms of intramolecular and/or intermolecular bond breaking. In order to identify and describe the students' assimilated knowledge, four questions were…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Chemistry, Scientific Concepts, Grade 9
Toward a New Conception of Conceptions: Interplay of Talk, Gestures, and Structures in the Setting
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Givry, Damien; Roth, Wolff-Michael – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2006
Most studies about students' conceptions and conceptual change are based exclusively on the analysis language, which is treated as a tool to make private contents of the mind public to researchers. Following recent studies that focused on (a) language and discursive practice and (b) the pragmatics of communication that draws on talk, gestures, and…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Verbal Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Context Effect