Primary Physical Science Education : : An Imaginative Approach to Encounters with Nature.

• Author: Fuchs, Hans U.
• TeilnehmendeR: Corni, Federico.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2023.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (356 pages)

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 &amp -- 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.