A STUDY ON THE TEACHING STRATEGY ABOUT FORCE AND MOTION -AS A STEP ON CONCEPTUAL CHANGE STRATEGY-

Abstract

For the learning of force and motion, we introduced pupils to a new teaching strategy, called a sophisticated event, as a way to exchange the children's alternative framework with scientific knowledge. We compared the standard lessons with the lessons that make up sophisticated events. We defined sophisticated events as the following: 1. According to the previous works, the most general way to exchange knowledge is Through "Awareness", "cognitive conflict" and "application". A sophisticated event is method of intensifying awareness. 2. This is a method of making pupils aware of alternative frameworks for themselves, by using a strategy where teachers introduce subjects to pupils as parallel. As a result, we found sophisticated events to be of great use for a conceptual change. Furthermore, we analyzed the two strategies from the two viewpoints : transfer of concepts and transit between the pretest and the post test.