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Bussotti, Paolo – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2023
In this research, an educational approach to the concept of energy is proposed. It is based on the history of physics. In 1854 Hermann Hemlholtz gave a popular lecture on the recent discovery that energy is conserved. Such lecture is used as a guide to introduce the pupils within several nuances of this concept. Not much mathematics is used, so…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Energy, Science History, Physics
Hammond, Dick E. – 1985
This paper examines how the revolution in human thinking, with the smaller revolution in astronomy begun by Nicolus Copernicus, has plunged science educators into the new Age of Information. Examples which illustrate this development and change in human thinking (from Copernicus' time to the present) are provided from such disciplines as…
Descriptors: High Schools, Information Science, Science Education, Science History