2006
DOI: 10.1007/s11191-006-9005-2
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Historical Experiments in Students’ Hands: Unfragmenting Science through Action and History

Abstract: Two students, meeting together with a teacher, redid historical experiments. Unlike conventional instruction where science topics and practices often fragment, they experienced interrelatedness among phenomena, participants' actions, and history. This study narrates actions that fostered an interrelated view. One action involved opening up historical telephones to examine interior circuitry. Another made sound visible in a transparent air column filled with Styrofoam bits and through Lissajous figures produced… Show more

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“…Apesar dos obstáculos destacados, encontramos alguns exemplos em trabalhos com experimentos históricos em museus, como os de Cavicchi (2008), Eggen et. al (2012, Heering e Müller (2002).…”
Section: "Se Na Linguagem De Todos Os Dias Os Valores As Atitudes Eunclassified
“…Apesar dos obstáculos destacados, encontramos alguns exemplos em trabalhos com experimentos históricos em museus, como os de Cavicchi (2008), Eggen et. al (2012, Heering e Müller (2002).…”
Section: "Se Na Linguagem De Todos Os Dias Os Valores As Atitudes Eunclassified
“…In making my classroom a space where students investigate ordinary things, I seek to bring about personal experiences relating students to the natural world, each other, and historical efforts (Cavicchi, 2008a(Cavicchi, , 2008b(Cavicchi, , 2007(Cavicchi, , 2005(Cavicchi, , 1999. While this integration among classroom activities and experiences might seem to be a condition that comes about on its own, in fact it depends on a teacher's observant participation.…”
Section: Elizabeth Cavicchimentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The setting of this study was an elective undergraduate lab seminar with the theme of recreating historical experiments as the jumping off point for our own investigative work (Cavicchi, 2007c(Cavicchi, , 2008b. Mingwei Gu, the student, enrolled in this seminar during the second term of his freshman MIT coursework in science and engineering.…”
Section: Critical Exploration As a Setting For This Studymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…During that term, I collaborated with David Pantalony and Markos Hankin in reactivating MIT's 19 th century tuning forks, made by Koenig and Kohl. My students then used these authentic instruments to project Lissijous figures from pairs of forks mounted cross-wise to each other (Cavicchi, 2007c(Cavicchi, , 2008b.…”
Section: The Singing Tube Roarsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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