2025 Volume 65 Issue 3 Pages 597-608
In this study, we developed and put into practice a lower secondary school science lesson that utilizes electric circuits (including short circuits) as teaching materials to help students build the concept of electric potentials and further solidify their understanding of voltage. Before the lesson, most students had not acquired the scientific knowledge that there is no difference in potential (voltage) between conductive wires that do not have a resistor in between them. However, after the lesson, the results demonstrated that their understanding of this concept had improved significantly. The results also confirmed that a certain number of students were able to further use this knowledge as a means to consider the potential of the entire circuit and consider unknown potential differences.
