Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Introduction.- A Physicist's Musings on Teaching about Energy.- A Space Physicist's Perspective on Energy Transformations and Implications for Teaching about Energy at All Levels.- Conservation of Energy: An Analytical Tool for Student Accounts of Carbon-Transforming Processes.- Developing Energy Conception of Students in Chemistry: Research on the Learning and Teaching of Energy.- Teaching and Learning the Physics Energy Concept.- Mapping Energy in the Boston Public Schools Curriculum.- Developing and Using Distractor-Driven Multiple-Choice Assessments Aligned to Ideas about Energy Forms, Transformation, Transfer, and Conservations.- Towards a Research-Informed Teaching Sequence for Energy.- Contextual Dimensions of the Energy Concept and Implications for Energy Teaching and Learning.- A Tale of Two Energies: What Do History, Language, and Research Tell Us about Students' Understanding of Energy?.- Distinctive Features and Underlying Rationale of a Philosophically-Informed Approach for Energy Teaching.- Repairing Engineering Students' Misconceptions about Energy and Thermodynamics.- Looking through the Energy Lens: A Proposed Learning Progression for Energy in Grades 3-5.- Opportunities for Reasoning about Energy within Elementary School Engineering Experiences.- The Energy Project: Constructing a Sustainable Foundation for Thinking and Learning about Energy in the 21st Century.- Launching the Space Shuttle by Making Water: The Chemists View of Energy.- Several Often-Neglected Perspectives of Energy in Chemical Education.- Energy in Chemical Systems.- Conclusion and Future Directions.