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2010 Presentation

Visuals and visualisation of human body systems

BY SINDHU MATHAI

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2010 Presentation

Understanding thermal equilibrium

BY SHIRISH RAJAN PATHARE

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2010 Presentation

The model-gesture-diagram link in elementary astronomy education

BY SHAMIN PADALKAR

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2010 Presentation

Representing cell biology using a fixed set of relation names – a refined concept map approach

BY MEENA KHARATMAL

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2010 Presentation

Probing students’ idea in special relativity through text interpretation

BY IMRAN KHAN PATHAN

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2010 Presentation

A review of the theory of teaching

DEEPAK S. PARANJAPE The art of teaching is governed by specific laws, which follow from the nature of learning. The students must attend to the lesson, with interest. The knowledge to be taught must be related to the prior lessons, and the experience of the student(s). The students must construct, in their own mind, the […]

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2010 Presentation

Student’s notions regarding ‘covariance’ of a physical theory

ATANU BANDYOPADHYAY  A physical theory is said to be covariant with respect to a certain class of transformations when its basic equations retain their ‘form’ under those transformations. It is one of the basic notions encountered in tertiary physics, particularly in the domain of relativity. In this paper we study in some detail how students […]

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2010 Presentation

Mapping and analysis of textbooks for graphs and related activities using GNOWSYS

AMIT DHAKULKARHomi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR, Mumbai, India  We present here an attempt to map the syllabus of the NCERT textbooks for topics and activities related to graphs. The sample textbooks that we have considered for the analysis are the NCERT textbooks from Grade 5 to Grade 10, in the subjects of Science, […]

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Eliciting students’ models of atmospheric pressure through a designed activity

Tripti Bameta1, Arjun Singh2 , Deepa Chari3 & Mashood K K 4Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR, Mumbai, India tripti@hbcse.tifr.res.in 1, arjun@hbcse.tifr.res.in 2 , deepa@hbcse.tifr.res.in 3 & mashood@hbcse.tifr.res.in 4 , The direction of force due to atmospheric pressure is a difficult topic for students to understand. Our study involving 35 high school students point towards the existence of two contrasting mental […]

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2020 Day 5: 29th May Presentation

Incubator: Incubating your ideas and sharing knowledge

V. C. SonawaneHomi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR, Mumbai, India vcs@hbcse.tifr.res.in Learning by ‘making things ‘is highly encouraged as students can take multiple decisions regarding material, size, proportions, control during experimentation. Making which engages them with doing science. With this idea, we took up the challenge to make an incubator from scratch as a learning […]