Young Children's Ideas about Heat Transfer Phenomena

Autor/inn/en	Pahl, Angelika; Fuchs, Hans U.; Corni, Federico
Titel	Young Children's Ideas about Heat Transfer Phenomena
Quelle	In: Education Sciences, 12 (2022), Artikel 263 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Pahl, Angelika) ORCID (Fuchs, Hans U.)
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Kindergarten; Young Children; Concept Formation; Knowledge Level; Heat; Observation; Water; Science Interests; Language Processing; Foreign Countries; Behavior; Italy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Frühe Kindheit; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; Wissensbasis; Hitze; Beobachtung; Wasser; Sprachverarbeitung; Ausland; Italien
Abstract	In this article, we present kindergarten children's ideas about thermal phenomena before any educational intervention took place. In order to capture and account for the heterogeneity of the kindergarten group in this study, first teachers observed children's exploration behavior, task orientation, science interest, and language comprehension in everyday kindergarten life using a structured observation form. Then, 24 children aged between 3.8 and 6.0 years were interviewed individually about three situations focusing upon water temperature and its changes. The results show that interest in science and language comprehension are significantly related to children's understanding of thermal phenomena, while task orientation and exploratory behavior are not. In general, the kindergarten children did not yet use the word "heat" in their descriptions and explanations but were more or less able to describe the water temperature and its changes in a differentiated way. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01