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Misconceptions Preconceptions Prior Knowledge Alternative Conceptions Maligned Mental Models
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Why are science teachers so interested in misconceptions?
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“All of the puzzle pieces had finally come together. The picture was right in front of me. I may not have expected the outcome of the experiments, but I will remember the results because I had seen and come up with the ideas on my own.” student after many months of inquiry-based physics class
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Teacher: So if you had a powerful microscope, a “magic microscope” that you could kind of see inside the bulb what would you see? Bill: Electrons go in the wire and go off, I don’t know, they like get bright so they leave the wire, I guess, like the filament so you lose them. The electrons would be going in there and then bouncing around so that they go off out of the filament. Teacher: So the electrons are creating the light? Bill: They are the light, yeah. A B C E D
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