Primary Physical Science Education : : An Imaginative Approach to Encounters with Nature.
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Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2023. ©2024. |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (356 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- Notes and Materials
- Acknowledgements
- Attributions for figures
- Contents
- Chapter 1 Myth, Imagination, and Science
- 1.1 Experience, Myth, and Imagination
- Wind in ancient cultures
- Why We Need Wind
- Wind as a Force of Nature (FoN)
- Myth
- Experiencing and communicating about Forces of Nature
- 1.2 The Development of Myth and Orality
- Before myth: Episodic and mimetic cultures
- Mythic Culture and Oral Language
- Mythic art: Abstraction and imagination
- Orality and Literacy: Development of writing
- 1.3 Children's Oral Mythic World
- Cultural evolution &
- Cultural Recapitulation
- Children and the power of abstraction and imagination
- Cognitive tools of mythic understanding
- Pattern, polarity, metaphor, and story
- 1.4 Taking Steps Towards Physical Science
- What makes science different from myth?
- Tools of literacy in emerging science and theoretic understanding
- A sense of reality „Out There," romantic realism, and theoretic culture
- Pedagogy of early science education
- A „modern" story of a storm
- 1.5 PPSE and Physical Science
- Debating the meaning of Physics and Force
- The scientific category of Forces of Nature
- PPSE-An imaginative scientific approach to Forces
- Notes
- Chapter 2 Encounters with Forces of Nature
- 2.1 Experiencing Forces
- 2.2 Polarities-Tensions Create Forces
- Experiencing polarities and tensions
- Forces associated with polarities and felt tensions
- Experiencing polarities and communicating about them
- 2.3 Wind, Rain, Fire, and Light
- How we experience Wind
- Getting to know Rain
- Chains of processes
- The abstract meaning of Force of Nature (FoN)
- Fire as a powerful agent
- Light as a Force of Nature
- Thunderstorms: Lightning and thunder
- 2.4 Rain and Water, Wind and Air
- New polarities and extensions for Water and Air.
- Water as a Hydraulic Force of Nature
- Wind and Air
- Light-as-Substance
- Lightning as electrical
- 2.5 Shifting Our Perspective
- Activities as bringers or producers of „stuff"
- New polarities, new Forces. . .
- 2.6 Invisible Fluids as Forces-The Case of Cold
- Snow, Ice, and Cold
- And then there are still more invisible agents. . .
- Notes
- Chapter 3 Wind, Water, and Gravity
- 3.1 Letting Wind and Water Interact
- Pumping Water with Wind
- Power explains relation of Forces in interactions
- 3.2 Quantifying Aspects of Wind and Water
- Extension of wind
- Quantifying the intensity of wind
- Wind as flowing air
- Intensity of Fluid in hydraulic phenomena
- Storage and flow of water-The concept of amount of fluid
- Amount and flow of fluids, and hydraulic tension
- 3.3 Water and Gravity Interacting
- Experiencing things as heavy or light
- Experiencing gravity
- A measure of amount of Gravity
- Intensity and tension of Gravity
- The gravitational field
- 3.4 Fluids „Stacked" in the Gravitational Field
- Letting the Forces of Gravity and Fluid interact
- Columns of liquids for measuring pressure
- Pressure of air in our atmosphere
- Pressure is a level-metaphorically speaking
- 3.5 Fluid Flow and Hydraulic Tension
- The relation between tension and flow
- Embodied Simulations-Feeling and understanding tension and flow
- 3.6 The Power of a Waterfall
- Constructing a formal expression for the power of Gravity
- Rising flames and balloons
- 3.7 The Role of Energy in Physical Processes
- An analogy for the relation between energy and power
- Energy made available, transferred, and stored
- Accounting for amounts of energy
- 3.8 Experiencing Fluids Creates Schemas
- Notes
- Chapter 4 Heat as a Force of Nature
- 4.1 Experiencing Hotness and Heat
- The sensation of warm and cold.
- The scale of hotness and the construction of temperature
- Imaginative experience of a fluidlike Quantity of Heat
- Embodied Simulation of thermal tension
- 4.2 Storing Heat, Letting It Flow, and Producing It
- An experiment suggesting the concept of amount of heat
- Heat flowing through materials
- A flow-tension relation for conduction of heat
- Two more ways of transporting heat
- Pumping heat
- Heat can be produced, but not destroyed
- Quantity of heat in imagination
- 4.3 Ice, Water, and Steam-The Role of Heat
- Ice, water, and heat
- Water, steam, and heat
- Boiling and freezing points
- Humid air
- Steam responding to heat
- 4.4 The Motive Power of Fire
- A very brief history of heat engines
- Carnot's suggestion for how to express the Power of Heat
- Heat and Water interacting in heat driven water pumps
- Heat pumps pump heat
- Power of the process that produces heat
- 4.5 Power and Efficiency of Thermal Processes
- The idea of efficiency of an interaction
- Conduction of heat-heat diffusing through materials
- The main limiting factor of the efficiency of heat engines
- Why we should pump rather than produce heat
- Measuring amounts of heat
- 4.6 Winds, Volcanoes, and Continental Drift
- Sun and Earth: Sizes and distance
- How much sunlight is there?
- Heat created when sunlight is absorbed
- Heat from the interior of the Earth
- Gently heating fluid layers from below: Observing convection
- How heat created by the Sun's light drives the „wind engine"
- The wind engine, in greater detail
- How How Heat from the Earth drives plate tectonics and volcanism
- Notes
- Chapter 5 Imagining Forces - Towards Visual Storytelling
- 5.1 The The Perpetuum Mobile Story
- 5.2 Forces of Nature in the Perpetuum Mobile Animation
- Matter (or physical objects) and energy
- Figure-Ground Reversal.
- Properties and activities of spirits
- Producing heat-the role of irreversibility
- 5.3 Energy in the Perpetuum Mobile Animation
- Dust as visual metaphor for energy
- Properties of energy-suggested by properties of dust
- Why doesn't a perpetual motion machine work?
- Power-measuring the magnitude of ongoing causation
- Agents at work
- 5.4 Visual Metaphors for Fluid and Potential
- The schema of fluid substance
- Experiencing and visualizing potential
- 5.5 Visualizing Forces of Nature in Process Diagrams
- Visualizing the energy exchanged in interactions
- Transmitting and storing energy
- A list of visual schemas in process diagrams
- Examples of process diagrams
- Process diagrams for dynamical systems
- 5.6 Forces-of-Nature Theater as Embodied Simulation
- Couplers and paths
- Agents and patients, interactions, and energy
- Notes
- Chapter 6 Science for Children?
- 6.1 Engaging with Forces of Nature-A Summary
- 6.2 Learning About FoN-An Example of Primary Pedagogy
- Theme, context, and motivation
- An extended unit of primary nature pedagogy
- 6.3 Studying the „Technical" Background
- Wind interacting with Water
- Where does Wind come from?
- The origin of Rain
- 6.4 Designing Direct Physical Experience
- 6.5 Designing Stories of Forces of Nature
- 6.6 Designing and Using FoN Theater Performances
- 6.7 Where We Go from Here
- Notes
- Glossary
- References
- Index.