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  • 标题:How Do Five- to Six-Year-Old Children Interpret a Burning Candle?
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  • 作者:Vanessa Sesto ; Isabel García-Rodeja
  • 期刊名称:Education Sciences
  • 电子版ISSN:2227-7102
  • 出版年度:2021
  • 卷号:11
  • 期号:5
  • 页码:213
  • DOI:10.3390/educsci11050213
  • 出版社:MDPI Publishing
  • 摘要:Many studies have been conducted in recent years on the explanations given by preschool-age children about different natural phenomena. Nonetheless, very few studies have actually focused on the important domain of matter and its transformations. Specifically, the field of chemical reactions remains unexplored. This qualitative study aims to investigate the explanations of twenty-two 5- to 6-year-old children about combustion, while at the same time evaluating the effect of prior experience with science activities on their interpretations. For this study, the following experiment was proposed: burning a candle inside an inverted vessel. The following data collection tools were used: a Predict-Observe-Explain (POE) strategy and audio and video recordings. The children’s explanations were analysed using classification frameworks, which had been developed in previous studies. The results of this study suggest that young children tend to provide naturalistic explanations about combustion. This finding is an indicator that young children are able to construct mental representations within this conceptual domain. Likewise, the results indicate that children who are used to engaging in inquiry-based activities may be more likely to establish a relationship with previous learning experiences to interpret other natural phenomena.
  • 关键词:preschool children; explanations; precursor models; natural phenomena; combustion preschool children ; explanations ; precursor models ; natural phenomena ; combustion
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