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| "William Gilbert – Separating electrical and magnetic attraction under the magnifying glass of experiment“ (Episode 1 of the series: Historic-Genetic Introduction to Electricity) | static electricity, electrical attraction, magnetism, magnetic attraction, lab diary, categorizing, sorting, William Gilbert | This episode is a part of a larger case study about the history of electricity: Secondary school students aged 12-15. | Andreas Henke, Dietmar Höttecke, Falk Rieß (Germany) | UB UO | German English |
| "Otto Guericke - Forces, Analogies and the Quality of Scientific Instruments" (Episode 2 of the series: Historic-Genetic Introduction to Electricity) | static electricity, electrical attraction, electrical repulsion, Otto von Guericke, sulphur ball, scientific instruments, analogies, Royal Society, Robert Boyle | This episode is a part of a larger case study about the history of electricity: Secondary school students aged 12-15. | Andreas Henke, Dietmar Höttecke, Falk Rieß (Germany) | UB UO | German English Italian Polish |
| "Charles dú Fay - Describing and Explaining Electrical Phenomena" (Episode 3 of the series: Historic-Genetic Introduction to Electricity) | static electricity, electrical attraction, electrical repulsion, Charles dú Fay, law, theory, vitreous electricity, resinous electricity | This episode is a part of a larger case study about the history of electricity: Secondary school students aged 12-15. | Andreas Henke, Dietmar Höttecke, Falk Rieß (Germany) | UB UO | German English Italian |
| "Stephen Gray - Electrical Conduction on the wrong track"(Episode 4 of the series: Historic-Genetic Introduction to Electricity) | static electricity, electrical attraction, electrical repulsion, electrical conduction, conductivity, experimental set-ups, testing hypotheses | This episode is a part of a larger case study about the history of electricity: Secondary school students aged 12-15. | Andreas Henke, Dietmar Höttecke, Falk Rieß (Germany) | UB UO | German English Italian |
| "Travelling Showmen - Electricity, Entertainment, and the Construction of Scientificality" (Episode 5 of the series: Historic-Genetic Introduction to Electricity) | static electricity, Lichtenberg, Berschitz, electrifiers, Demonstrations, scientificality, scientific community, controversy | This episode is a part of a larger case study about the history of electricity: Secondary school students aged 12-15. | Andreas Henke, Dietmar Höttecke, Falk Rieß (Germany) | UB UO | German English |
| Moving Bodies: Lessons from Aristole to Galilei about aspects of the nature of science | Aristotle, Galilei, early mechanics, inertia, idealization, role of mathematics in physics, inclinded plane | grade 8-11 (age 14-17) | Dietmar Höttecke, Anna Launus, Andreas Henke, Falk Rieß | UB UO | German English Portuguese |
| Refrigeration Technology | history of technology, refrigerator, methods for producing coldeness | grade 5-7 (age 10-14) | Falk Rieß, Dietmar Höttecke, Andreas Henke, Veronika Maiseyenka | UB UO | German English |
| Excurse to the History of Weight Concept: From Aristotle to Newton and then to Einstein | weight, gravitation, inertial force, weight operational definition, weightlessness, equivalence of inertia and gravitation | physics teachers, secondary school students | Igal Galili Michael Tseitlin | HUJI | English Hebrew Portuguese |
| Excurse to the History of Inertial Force | inertia, inertial force, centrifugal force, mutiple observers in physics, operational definition of force | physics teachers, secondary school students | Igal Galili Michael Tseitlin | HUJI | English Hebrew |
| Understanding Classical Mechanics: A Dialouge with Cartesian Theory of Motion | rest-motion equivalence, the relativity principle, laws of motion, conservation of momentum and kinetic energy | physics teachers, secondary school students | Igal Galili Michael Tseitlin | HUJI | English Hebrew |
| Excurse to the History of Image Concept and Vision | optical image, vision and light rays, eidola, extramission, intromission, image transfer | physics teachers, secondary school students | Igal Galili | HUJI | English Hebrew German |
| Excurse to the History of Understanding of Motion - De Motu | old theories of motion, Aristotelian theory, impetus, scientific revolution, nature of science, rest-motion states. | physics teachers, secondary school students | Igal Galili Michael Tseitlin | HUJI | English Hebrew |
| Witelo's studies on rectilinear propagation of light | history of optics, light, rectilinear propagation of light, Witelo, replica, shadow, penumbra, exhibition | physics teachers, students of higher secondary school, age 16-19 | Jozefina Turlo Justyna Chojnacka | UT | English Polish |
| Optical microscopes since the first to the contemporary one | lens, history of microscope, construction of microscope, microscope's magnification | physics teachers, students of lower secondary school (age 15-16), vocational school (age 18-19), higher secondary school (age 18-20) | Jozefina Turlo Magdalena Sadowska | UT | English Polish |
| The glasses as a simple optical instruments or from what it started... | teaching, history of glasses, eye lens, focal lenght, focusing ability | physics teachers, students of higher secondary school (age 17-19) | Jozefina Turlo Janusz Kosicki | UT | English Polish |
| The contribution of Nicolaus Copernicus observations to the calendar reform | calendar, the apparent motion of the sun, the experiment of Copernicus, reflex gnomon | physics teachers, students of lower and higher secondary schools (age 15-19) | Jozefina Turlo Magdalena Czerwinska | UT | English Polish |
| Telescope at school, that is as to be Galileo... | teaching, history of telescopes, replica, refractor, mirror telescope (reflector) | physics teachers, higher secondary school (age 17-19) | Jozefina Turlo Krzysztof Rochowicz | UT | English Polish |
| The discovery of the dynamic electricity and the transformation of long distance communications | Volta's pile, first technical applications of dynamic electricity, optical telegraph, Morse telegraph, submarine telegraphy, transformations in society | physic teachers, students of secondary school (age 17-19) | Silvana Barbacci Paolo Brenni Annalisa Bugini Anna Giatti | FST | English Italian |
| Steam, Work, Energy | thermal machines, caloric, relationship heat-energy, first principle of thermodynamic, efficiency, Carnot's cycle, Watt, Carnot, Joule | physic teachers, students of secondary school (age 15-18) | Silvana Barbacci Paolo Brenni Anna Giatti | FST | English Italian German |
| A Naturalist Who Became a Pioneer of Experimental Marine Oceanography in Portugal. Assets for Science Education | History of science; History of Oceanography; Nature of Science; Biology education; Science education; Science museums | Biology teachers, secondary school students (levels 10, 11) | Cláudia Faria, Gonçalo Pereira, Isabel Chagas | FCUL | English Portuguese Italian Greek |
| Introduction of Topics of History of Energy in the Teaching of Physics and Chemistry | Energy, heat, work, force, movement, Mayer, Joule, Colding, Helmholtz, W. Thomson, history, philosophy, teaching | Physics and Chemistry teachers, secondary school students (age 14-18), vocational school (age 16-18) | Ricardo Lopes Coelho Magda Marques Teresa Rocha Homem | FCUL | English |
| Darwin's wiki. A web 2.0 tool to learn evolution with the classics | History of science; Biology education; Evolution; Wiki | Biology teachers, secondary school students (levels 10 to 12) | António Faria, Marta Caseirito, Ondina Castanheira, Sandra Medeiros, Susana Lemos, Isabel Chagas | FCUL | English |
| Teaching of the simple pendulum and its relation to accurate timekeeping | Simple pendulum;timekeeping;Galileo;Richer;Short historical text | Secondary school students (age 14-15),Physics teachers | Dimitrios Koliopoulos, Sotirios Dosis | AUTH | English Greek |
| The teaching of elementary Nature of Science. The case of the Millikan oil drop experiment | Nature of science, history of science, scientific controversies, Millikan, Ehrenhaft, oil drop, fundamental electric charge, electron | Secondary school, students aged 15-16, Physics teachers | Dimitris Koliopoulos, Eleni Paraskevopoulou | AUTH | English Greek |
| From Hooke’s Micrographia towards the construction of a simple microscope for the teaching and learning of primary science | Simple microscope, Hooke's Micrographia, microscope studies, study of plants, observation notebooks, primary science. | Primary school learners, 11-12 year-olds, primary science teachers | Nektarios Tsagliotis | AUTH | English |
| From the geocentric to the heliocentric system: An educational scenario based on the history of science in which students produce animation movies | Geocentric - heliocentric debate, nature of science, animation movies developed by pupils | Primary school learners, 11-12 year-olds, primary science teachers | Panagiotis Piliouras , Spyros Siakas, Fanny Seroglou | AUTH | English Greek Polish |
| Nature of Science module | Academic High Schools | Gábor Á. Zemplén | BME | English German Greek | |
| Facilitating the teaching of the theory of evolution by enriching the teaching of evidences for evolution with an epistemological perspective on relevant distinctions and relations between facts and theories | Gergely Kertész & Violetta Lenér | BME | English | ||
| Teaching Circulation in Biology Classes using HPS, inquiry learning, and extended group-work | BME | Hungarian | |||
| Is acidity perfect or real? | acid, acidity, idealisation, induction | John Oversby | UOR | English | |
| Temperature – what can we find out when we measure it? | temperature, thermometry, measurement, instrumentation, scale, calibration, construction, particle | John Oversby | UOR | English | |
| Chemical formulae and equations: more than just calculations? | formulae, equations, modelling. | John Oversby | UOR | English |
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Dear Partners,
May (Galili and me) take the nice opportunity of thanking you for description of as much as 20 developed by us Cases. I that way the results of our work are easy to see for adaptations. Best regards, Yours sincerely, Jozefina.
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Dear Partners,
Thank you very much for the Overview of the case studies developed and still some of you are kindly asked for place the lacking ones. Many thanks in advance, best regards, Your sincelery, Jozefina
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De Motu HUJI.pdf (Adobe Portable Document Format - 1,546k)
posted by galili Mar 2 2010, 8:39 AM EST
Case study of motion by HUJI
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exchange_format_final.pdf (Adobe Portable Document Format - 84k)
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HUJI-Weight 22.11.09.pdf (Adobe Portable Document Format - 902k)
posted by galili Nov 25 2009, 5:34 AM EST
Case study of weight by HUJI
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