Development of Teaching Tools for Observing from Various Viewpoints in 4th Grade Science Course "How Things Warm Up

Abstract

In the elementary school science class, "How things warm up", there is a possibility to break the stereotype of learners and lead them to a more essential understanding of how water heats up by observing the phenomenon in various ways. For this reason, in this study, we developed a teaching tool that combines the features of the existing tools into one, and allows the learner to choose from three different positions for the heating/cooling, thermo-ink, and thermographic observations, as well as for the heating/cooling part. The teaching tool has a total of 12 observation patterns. By looking at the thermographic images in detail, we were able to observe the movement of water circulating in layers of different densities.