Fun Experiments about Properties of Air in a Teacher Education Program

dc.creator	Mızrap Bulunuz
dc.creator	Olga Jarrett
dc.date	2012-12-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:23:37Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:23:37Z
dc.identifier	1307-6086
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/b5f027c542f14cce9093bd9601f6ae9d
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/21007
dc.description	This exploratory research has three purposes: (a) to identify which air pressure activities students (teachers and preservice teachers) find most fun and least fun, (b) to determine for these two groups of activities the likelihood that teachers will do the activities in their classroom and whether they will do them as hands-on activities or as demonstrations, and (c) to look for common characteristics and differences among the activities the students chose as most fun and least fun. Undergraduate and master students participated in hands-on learning stations and discrepant event demonstrations in the science methods course. An activity rating scale and students’ journals was used as a source of data. The analysis of the journals indicated that students have naïve conceptions about the physical properties of air. It was surprising to find that students rated as the most fun, many activities that they watched rather than did themselves. The fun element seemed to be mostly related to how discrepant the activity was for them. The students said they would implement most of the activities in their own classrooms, but there did not seem to be a relationship between how the activities were done in the class, their ratings of fun, and whether they would implement as hands-on activities or as demonstrations. The students seemed to look primarily at safety issues (flames and glass lab equipment) and messiness in deciding that a demonstration was better.
dc.language	Turkish
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Necatibey Faculty of Education
dc.relation	http://www.nef.balikesir.edu.tr/~dergi/makaleler/yayinda/13/EFMED_FBE227.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1307-6086
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND
dc.source	Necatibey Faculty of Education, Electronic Journal of Science and Mathematics Education , Vol 6, Iss 2, Pp 27-48 (2012)
dc.subject	Science teaching
dc.subject	hands-on learning stations
dc.subject	discrepant science demonstrations
dc.subject	fun.
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Fun Experiments about Properties of Air in a Teacher Education Program
dc.type	article