Dealing With Science MISCONCEPTIONS
California Journal of Science Education
Vol V, Issue 2 – Spring, 2005
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Table of Contents
President’s Message
What and Why Misconceptions?
Enhancing Learning Through Conceptual Change Teaching
William C. Kyle, Jr. and James A. Shymansky
Teaching for Conceptual Change: Confronting Children's Experience
Bruce Watson and Richard Kopnicek
Misconceptions About Science
The Principal Elements of the Nature of Science: Dispelling
the Myths
William F. McComas
Glossary of Terms Used in Teaching About the Nature of Science
National Academy Press
Overcoming Misconceptions in Science
Avoid Misconceptions When Teaching about Plants
David R. Hershey
Children's Ideas About Weather: A Review of the Literature
Laura Henriques
What Causes the Seasons?
Phil Plait
Dark Side of the Moon
Phil Plait
Five Major Misconceptions about Evolution
Mark Isaak
Students' Conceptions of the Forces Acting on Objects in
Motion
David Palmer
Chemistry Misconceptions
Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Appendix
Resources
Cover Story
The Egg and the Equinox
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