Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Volume 6, Issue 2, Article 6 (Dec., 2005) Muammer CALIK and Alipasa AYAS An analogy activity for incorporating students' conceptions of types of solutions Contents Next

An analogy activity for incorporating students' conceptions of types of solutions

Muammer CALIK^1,3 and Alipasa AYAS²

¹KTU Giresun Faculty of Education, Department of Elementary Science Education, 28200 Giresun, TURKEY
²KTU, Fatih Faculty of Education, Department of Secondary Science and Mathematics Education, 61335 Sogutlu-Trabzon, TURKEY
³Correspondence author

E-mail: muammer38@hotmail.com

Received 3 February, 2005
Revised 11 July, 2005

Contents

• Abstract
• Introduction
• The Use of Analogy in Designing The Activity
• Analogy
• A Model for Incorporating Students' Conceptions in a Lesson
  • Eliciting students' pre-existing ideas
  • Focusing on the target concept
  • Challenging Students'Ideas
  • Applying newly constructed ideas to similar situations
• Implications for Learning and Research
• References

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Abstract

There are the only two studies available on the types of solutions -- unsaturated, saturated, supersaturated, dilute and concentrate -- in the related literature with respect to students' understanding. But, no study focuses on remediation of students' alternative conceptions with regard to the aforementioned concepts, based on the assumption that learners actively construct and transform their own meanings, rather than passively acquire and accumulate knowledge transmitted to them. Therefore, this study can fill in a gap in the literature by designing an activity on the types of solutions in regard to four-step constructivist teaching strategy. Also, some suggestions were made for future studies and further investigation.

Keywords: Solution Chemistry, Types of Solution, Guide Material, Constructivism, Alternative Conception

 

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