6–10 Jul 2026
Europe/Athens timezone
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Energy for Students: The Hierarchy of Concepts

6 Jul 2026, 13:30
20m
Room 7

Room 7

Oral presentation Thermodynamics & Energy (THERMO) Parallel oral presentations

Speaker

Mojca Čepič (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Education)

Description

In many years of lecturing methodology of teaching mechanics and its very important component, the energy, several problems with comprehension of the concept were realized. In this contribution we first discuss problems in understanding of students, and very often also lecturers, next we discuss the teaching approach for different levels in physics education, that is, how to teach energy in lower secondary education introducing energy for the first time, how to continue in more demanding upper secondary school, and finally, which problems remain for the university level and how to approach them.

Education level All ages
Physics topic Thermodynamics and Energy
Research focus Innovative instructional strategies and pathways
Research method Innovative research strategies (Try-out) (Qualitative research)
Organizing preference criteria Track

Author

Mojca Čepič (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Education)

Co-author

Saša Kožuh (Šolski center Ljubljana, Aškerčeva 1, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Presentation materials