Electrons to light bulbs: Understanding electricity with a multi-level simulation environment

Beheshti, Elham; Aljuhani, Asmaa; Horn, Michael

doi:10.1109/fie.2014.7044047

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“…Our goal was to investigate whether coupling the two representations in one interactive system could improve novice understanding of electrical circuits. Our findings showed that learners were able to develop better understandings of our target electricity concepts drawing on both circuit-level and electron-level representations [4].…”

Section: Design Of Sparkmentioning

confidence: 97%

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Beheshti

Obiorah

Horn

2015

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

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Electrical circuits are difficult to understand. In this paper, we introduce Spark, a museum exhibit that enables learners to interact with multiple representations of electrical circuits at the same time.The goal is to familiarize children with fundamental concepts of electricity such as current and resistance. We tested our design with 6 parent-child dyads at a major science museum. Our study investigates how families make sense of representations at the level of circuits and at the level of electrons and ions. Our findings show a wide variety of visitor interactions with the exhibit, in particular when connecting the two representations of a circuit.

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Section: Design Of Sparkmentioning

confidence: 97%