Children’s understandings of science: Goldilocks and the Three Bears revisited

摘要: The purposes of this study were to determine whether first grade students adopted misconceptions about scientific concepts hot, cold and temperature as presented in the story, Goldilocks Three Bears (Marshall, 1988); who had such able make conceptual changes when with activities aimed at challenging misconceptions. Qualitative methods used included partial participant observation interviewing. Conceptual change lessons interviews key informants videotaped audiotape recorded, transcribed, analyzed using process analytic induction. analysis showed that did adopt embedded most after experiencing multiple challenged their