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Scientific practice involves the construction, validation and application of scientific models, so science instruction should be designed to engage students in making and using models.  Scientific models are coherent units of structured knowledge.  They are used to organize factual information into coherent wholes, often by the coordinated use of general laws or principles.  Therefore, the structure of scientific knowledge can be made more explicit for students by organizing course content around a small number of basic models.  The ability of students to learn transferable modeling skills by applying given models to a variety of situations to describe, explain, or predict physical events or to design experiments.  These ideas have been incorporated into a methodology for physics teaching and a course for training teachers.
The changing role of physics departments in modern universities: International Conference on Undergraduate Physics
College Park, MD: 1996, 1996
Volume 399, Pages 935-958
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Education Practices
- Active Learning
= Modeling
- Pedagogy
= Instructional Issues
- Lower Undergraduate
- Instructional Material
= Course
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DOI:
10.1063/1.53196
ISBN Number:
1-56396-698-0
PACSs:
01.40.Jp
01.40.Gm
01.50.-i
Keywords:
methodology-teaching-physics, modeling, science instruction, scientific models
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D. Hestenes, , presented at the The changing role of physics departments in modern universities: International Conference on Undergraduate Physics, College Park, MD, 1996, WWW Document, (http://modeling.asu.edu/R&E/ModelingMeth-jul98.pdf).
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D. Hestenes, Modeling methodology for physics teachers, presented at the The changing role of physics departments in modern universities: International Conference on Undergraduate Physics, College Park, MD, 1996, <http://modeling.asu.edu/R&E/ModelingMeth-jul98.pdf>.
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Hestenes, D. (1996, 1996). Modeling methodology for physics teachers. Paper presented at The changing role of physics departments in modern universities: International Conference on Undergraduate Physics, College Park, MD. Retrieved March 29, 2024, from http://modeling.asu.edu/R&E/ModelingMeth-jul98.pdf
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Hestenes, David. "Modeling methodology for physics teachers." Paper presented at the The changing role of physics departments in modern universities: International Conference on Undergraduate Physics, College Park, MD, 1996, 1996. http://modeling.asu.edu/R&E/ModelingMeth-jul98.pdf (accessed 29 March 2024).
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Hestenes, David. "Modeling methodology for physics teachers." The changing role of physics departments in modern universities: International Conference on Undergraduate Physics. College Park, MD: 1996. 935-958 Vol. 399 29 Mar. 2024 <http://modeling.asu.edu/R&E/ModelingMeth-jul98.pdf>.
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