Functions of Metaphor That Prompts Conscious and Deliberate Character of Constructing Scientific Concepts : Analyzing The Unit "heat expansion" in the fourth grade

Abstract

In this study, we analyzed images and its expression as a metaphor that have a relation to children's constructing scientific concepts. As a result, we revealed that children had tried to construct scientific concepts with a dual-coding approach of images. This prompted conscious and deliberate character of concepts, and children' s autonomous learning.