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Science Teacher Training in an Information Society
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Workshop 1

Introduction
Section A
Section B
Activity B1
Activity B2
Activity B3
Activity B4
Activity B5
Activity B6
Activity B7
Activity B8
Section C
Section D
Section E
Section F
Section G

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Section B  Learning about the innovation

Activity B8  Fuels and food (cont.)
Page 9 of 9
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Examples of pupils’ discussion

The following are examples of statements made by 13-14 year-old pupils discussing the activity on pages 7 and 8 in which changes involving energy being stored and released are matches to abstract pictures. 

Matching situations to abstract pictures:

Torch battery:

"Like something happens by itself ... so ... it's from stored to released.
"Because energy was inside and it went outside." 

Bath cooling:

"Because it goes from hot to cold, and it's heat and energy is being released." 

Petrol used in a car:

"Because it's stored and then it's released which makes the car move." 

Light bulb:

"Someone's driving that to get hot." 

Person running:

"Number 6 then, because that's like pulling chemicals and things (6), and this is just cooling down (5)." 
 

Finding similarities between situations matched to the same abstract picture

An electric light bulb gets hot / Using a kettle to boil some water:

"Energy is being stored up "
"Something is driving the water, something has to drive the light bulb."
"It doesn't just happen by itself."

Petrol is used in a car engine / A person uses up food running a race:

"You gotta put energy in and then take it out - use it, burn it up, in other words."
"That is stored ... "
"That is driving that."
" ... but then it's released.  It's stored then it's released, but then the person's running."
 
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