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.