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Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Volume
10, Issue 2, Article 16 (Dec., 2009) |
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Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Volume
10, Issue 2, Article 16 (Dec., 2009) |
The application of concept cartoons in the teaching of friction
Yan-yan XIONG and Xian-qiu WU
School of Physics and Telecommunications Engineering, South China Normal University, Guangdong, Guangzhou 510006, P.R. CHINA
Email: xiong_yanyan@yahoo.com.cn
Received 13 Oct., 2009
Revised 23 Nov., 2009
Taking the lesson “friction” for example, the approaches of concept cartoons are used. The article attempts to combine the constructivism theory and the practical physics teaching approaches, highlights the characteristics that can develop the students’ thinking, and can motivate the more extensive space of them by the art of vision, so to expect the students can reconstruct the correct science concept and extend their view of knowledge in the confliction of the new and old cognition.
Keywords: Concept cartoon, Constructivism theory, Friction, Confliction of cognition
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