Introduction: Why focus on energy instruction?

Beitrag in SammelwerkForschungbegutachtet

Publikationsdaten


VonArthur Eisenkraft, Jeffrey Nordine, Robert F. Chen, David Fortus, Joseph Krajcik, Knut Neumann, Allison Scheff
OriginalspracheEnglisch
Erschienen inRobert F. Chen, Arthur Eisenkraft, David Fortus, Joseph Krajcik, Knut Neumann, Jeffrey Nordine, Allison Scheff (Hrsg.), Teaching and Learning of Energy in K - 12 Education
Seiten1-11
Herausgeber (Verlag)Springer
ISBN978-3-319-05016-4, 978-3-319-05017-1
DOI/Linkhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05017-1_1
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht – 2014

Energy is one of the most important ideas in all of science and is useful for predicting and explaining phenomena within every scientific discipline. Yet, there are substantive differences in how the energy concept is used across disciplines. While a particle physicist relies heavily on the idea that energy is conserved during interactions between subatomic particles, an ecologist is typically more concerned with the idea energy transfers across system boundaries.