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Science Teacher Training in an Information Society
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Teaching about energy

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Workshop 1

Introduction
Section A
Activity A1
Activity A2
Section B
Section C
Section D
Section E
Section F
Section G

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Section A  Exploring current practice

In this section, you will review and evaluate how energy is currently taught throughout your existing science curriculum, and identify particular areas that you would like to address. In considering how you might introduce new ideas into the curriculum, it is clearly important to consider what is already there.

It may be possible simply to add a new approach to existing approaches, though it may be, for example, that an existing approach needs to be modified to allow a new approach to be incorporated. Understanding the nature of existing approaches will help to put into perspective the new ideas about energy that will be introduced in later activities. The new approaches may or may not address the problems that you identify, but by defining your own agenda, it will help to put the new ideas in perspective.

The activities in this section are: 


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