Study of students' mental images effect on learning chemistry

dc.creator	Rasol Abdullah Mirzaie
dc.creator	Masoumeh Shahmohammadi
dc.creator	Amrollah Kouhi
dc.date	2010-04-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:09:25Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:09:25Z
dc.identifier	1306-3049
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/ea95bd4adfce4226a4a4619ba7d9f604
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/12772
dc.description	It is clear that use of images has effect on teaching the chemistry concepts. In classrooms, some examples which are used for simplifying and understanding the material better are in macroscopic dimension and students do not understand particles such as atoms, molecules and ions well. In order to help them understand these concepts in macroscopic dimension, illustration is used. In illustration, students can reflect different concepts of chemistry which have learnt during teaching. One of the illustration methods is to use painting art, as one can determine the extent to which they have understood from chemistry concepts and relationship among different areas of the sciences, society and technology by studying paintings of these students. The Aim of this research is to determine through their paintings whether students have understood the taught concepts in chemistry of the first grade of high school in IRAN or not. These chemistry subjects include water, atmosphere, minerals and fuel. After teaching the above topics, the students were asked to select a subject at their will and paint about it. This research has been performed in two separate cities in IRAN but it has been implemented in equal age groups and it was specified that different places of residence had effects on selection of painting subject. Our experience showed that use of this method led to deep learning in the students and provided the opportunity for them to express their beliefs in scientific concepts in their own way and language. On the other hand, teacher performs a kind of continual evaluation in this way and understands students’ misconceptions and tries to remove these errors before beginning new subject. This method is interesting for students so that most of them mentioned that painting the chemistry was new and interesting experience.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Moment Publications
dc.relation	http://www.eurasianjournals.com/index.php/ejpce/article/view/211/pdf_90
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1306-3049
dc.source	Eurasian Journal of Physics and Chemistry Education, Vol 2, Iss 1, Pp 53-62 (2010)
dc.subject	Pictography
dc.subject	misconception
dc.subject	chemistry education
dc.subject	paintings
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Study of students' mental images effect on learning chemistry
dc.type	article