Evaluating key ideas for teaching electromagnetic radiation

Sarah Zloklikovits, Martin Hopf

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Abstract

Although electromagnetic radiation is an omnipresent phenomenon in our everyday life, in Austria it is only taught in high schools. Our aim is to develop a research-based teaching and learning sequence on electromagnetic radiation for the middle school level. As a first design step, we developed central explanations, so called key ideas, to introduce the term of electromagnetic radiation and the interaction with matter. Those key ideas were evaluated with teaching experiments, using the method of probing acceptance. The outcomes are encouraging and help us to get a better understanding of students' problems and their perspectives while learning about radiation. The key ideas were adapted accordingly.
Original languageGerman
Article number012063
JournalJournal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume1929
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
EventGIREP-ICPE-EPEC_MPTL 2019 Conference: Eötvos year 2019 - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
Duration: 1 Jul 20195 Jul 2019

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 503013 Subject didactics of natural sciences

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