Conveners
Contemporary Physics and Modern Physics
- Paul Alstein (Utrecht University)
Contemporary Physics and Modern Physics
- Anja Kranjc Horvat (CERN)
Contemporary Physics and Modern Physics
- Eleonora Barelli
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Vera Montalbano (University of Siena)7/4/22, 3:00 PMContemporary Physics and Modern Physics in SchoolOral presentation
Health effects of radon, most notably lung cancer, have been investigated for several decades. Therefore, indoor radon monitoring is a great way for considering the problem of natural radioactivity but also a way to insert phenomenological elements in physics education useful in understanding the crisis of classical physics and for introducing to modern physics. The RADIOLAB project allowed to...
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Mrs Lorena Solvang (Karlstad University)7/4/22, 3:20 PMContemporary Physics and Modern Physics in SchoolOral presentation
The present study provides a new model that can be used to characterize students’ representational competence. By using this model, we explore upper secondary school students’ interaction with a GeoGebra simulation of friction by analyzing in which ways students express different aspects of their representational competence. The results show that by using the provided simulation in conjunction...
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Mr Manuel Becker (University of Vienna)7/4/22, 3:40 PMContemporary Physics and Modern Physics in SchoolOral presentation
Energy is an important crosscutting concept across middle and high school grades. However, studies show that students struggle comprehending this concept. To address this problem, we started a design-based research project called “the energy field approach” (EFA). This project develops a teaching learning sequence (TLS) for high schools (grades 10-12) building on knowledge about students’...
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Paul Alstein (Utrecht University)7/4/22, 4:00 PMContemporary Physics and Modern Physics in SchoolOral presentation
We report the design and first evaluation of an open-ended simulation tool for special relativity education at the secondary level. The simulation tool, named Relativity Lab, is aimed at supporting students in performing and evaluating thought experiments, by constructing simulations from scratch and viewing the outcomes from different frames of reference. We performed a usability test (N=11)...
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Maria Bondani (CNR - Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies)7/5/22, 2:00 PMContemporary Physics and Modern Physics in SchoolOral presentation
We designed and implemented learning activities to teach Quantum Physics in the context of Quantum Technologies by exploiting the necessary mathematical formalism and interactive activities necessary to stimulate students’ reflection on the principles of quantum theory.
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Sara Satanassi7/5/22, 2:20 PMContemporary Physics and Modern Physics in SchoolOral presentation
The teaching of quantum technologies has now become a leading topic and is at the heart of numerous international programs.
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In the contribution, we present an approach for teaching the second quantum revolution to secondary school students that Bologna’s research group in physics education has developed in recent years. The approach and activity that we are going to present contribute to shed... -
Ebba Koerfer7/5/22, 2:40 PMContemporary Physics and Modern Physics in SchoolOral presentation
This exploratory case study aimed to investigate patterns in student reasoning in statistical mechanics, in order to identify difficulties and develop ideas for future research. Upper-division undergraduate students, taking a course in statistical mechanics, were interviewed in groups. Here we present observed patterns of student reasoning about a simple, discrete system in contact with a heat...
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Kristóf Tóth7/5/22, 3:00 PMContemporary Physics and Modern Physics in SchoolOral presentation
The uncertainty principle can be interpreted via different approaches to QM. In this presentation consequences for the general uncertainty principle are shown in an approach avoiding the use of complex numbers. These are strange to students who are familiar with the position-momentum relation. If we deal with real vector spaces, like most of the two-state-approaches do in secondary schools,...
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Anja Kranjc Horvat (CERN)7/5/22, 3:20 PMContemporary Physics and Modern Physics in SchoolOral presentation
Elementary particle physics is entering high-school education. However, many argue that particle physics is often introduced in a reductionistic and informative way. This study analyses how particle physics content in high-school physics curricula compares to experts’ expectations. The expectations of 13 experts were elicited through an expert concept mapping study on what high-school students...
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Adele Naddeo7/7/22, 4:00 PMContemporary Physics and Modern Physics in SchoolOral presentation
A novel teaching-learning module is here presented, aimed at introducing basic concepts of general relativity to students attending the last year of scientific high schools. Emphasis is on conceptual rather than technical aspects, and only familiarity with simple calculus is required. Part of the module is devoted to the discussion and the reproduction (or simulation), of key real or gedanken...
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Giacomo Zuccarini7/7/22, 4:20 PMContemporary Physics and Modern Physics in SchoolOral presentation
We describe a tentative elementarization scheme for the information processing phase of quantum algorithms and report on a preliminary evaluation of its effectivity on Italian self-selected secondary school students in distance learning. While the test was conducted on a small sample in very special conditions, this work of clarification promoted a consistent understanding of the algorithmic...
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Giovanni Giuliana7/7/22, 4:40 PMContemporary Physics and Modern Physics in SchoolOral presentation
Literature in physics education shows that students still experience difficulties learning quantum mechanics, although it is part of the high school curriculum and many research-based proposals are available. Prior works mostly focused on specific misconceptions and a clearer picture of students’ ideas on general quantum concepts is still lacking. We addressed these issues by inspecting,...
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Dr Eleonora Barelli (Department of Physics and Astronomy “Augusto Righi”, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna)7/7/22, 5:00 PMContemporary Physics and Modern Physics in SchoolOral presentation
One of the most popular models for the spread of diseases is constituted by a system of differential equations describing the evolution of susceptible, infectious, and recovered populations over time. However, agent-based epidemiological models can also be formulated based on interaction models from physics of complex systems. In this contribution, we discuss how upper high-school students,...
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