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Outcomes of a Teaching Learning Sequence on Modelling Surface Phenomena in Liquids

Onofrio Rosario BattagliaAurelio Agliolo GallittoGiulia TerminiClaudio Fazio

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Public AdministrationSettore FIS/08 - Didattica E Storia Della FisicaPhysical Therapy Sports Therapy and RehabilitationEducationComputer Science Applicationssurface phenomena; surface tension; mesoscopic model; active learning; educational reconstruction; SPH methodssurface tensionactive learningDevelopmental and Educational PsychologyComputer Science (miscellaneous)educational reconstructionKeywords: surface phenomenaSPH methodsmesoscopic model

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In this paper we discuss the effects of modelling and computer simulation activities in promoting student use of lines of reasoning useful to explain proposed or observed situations. The activities are part of a structured Teaching/Learning Sequence on surface phenomena in liquids. We outline a model of liquid based on a mesoscopic approach, examples of computer simulations students can use during the activities, and we describe the Teaching/Learning Sequence. During the pedagogical activities, students can simulate the liquid behaviour by controlling many simulation parameters, such as the interaction intensity among liquid and solid particles. The results of the analysis of student answers to a questionnaire before and after instruction, and of other qualitative data, show that these activities can help the students to think in terms of “mechanisms of functioning”.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2023-04-21
10.3390/educsci13040425https://hdl.handle.net/10447/588251