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Anno XXIX - n.3 - luglio/settembre 1996 La potenza della suggestione
About one hundred physics textbooks have been examined in this article to research the answer given to a simple question of hydrostatics shown in fig. 1. The number of wrong answers turned out to be surprisingly high. […]
Anno XXVIII - n.1 - gennaio/marzo 1995 La pressione
The concept of pressure should be easy to understand; despite that, I’ve found frequent misunderstandings in students, teachers, and books. Is this quantity related to interaction or to the state of a system? Is it a vector, or scalar (or tensor) quantity? […]
Anno XXVII - n.3 - luglio/settembre 1994 La ricerca educativa nei paesi britannici e la questione delle ragazze: una rassegna di contributi per un’azione didattica
During the last decade Educational Research in many countries of the world has been dealing with the question of the lack of participation of girls in science education, especially in physical and technological sciences. This article reviews the most the issues, […]
Anno XLVI - n.2 - aprile/giugno 2013 La “Sala Giochi della Fisica” alla scuola “Cottolengo” di Torino
At the Cottolengo School in Torino (Italy) many pupils are foreigners and-or suffer a disability. We implemented a set of “play booths” with the purpose of motivating and encouraging the pupils’ interest in science and promoting aggregation and cultural integration […]
Anno XXVI - n.3 - luglio/settembre 1993 La sedia di Piekara, un modello meccanico dei livelli energetici degli atomi (Traduzione da The Physics Teacher, vol. 29, n. 4, Aprile 1991 a cura di Silvia Pugliese Jona)
Piekara’s Chair is a macroscopic, classical model useful for explaining several atomic physics concepts and phenomena such as energy levels, spontaneous and stimulated emission, absorption and Boltzmann statistics. In this article the Model is described and possible classroom uses are suggested. […]
Anno XXV - n.2 - aprile/giugno 1992 Le forze sono sorelle gemelle?
This article analyses notorious problems concerning Newlon’s third law against the historical background. A proposal is made to reformulate this law by substituting the term ‘interaction’ far ‘action’ and ‘reaction’. […]
Anno XLVII - n.2 - aprile/giugno 2014 Le idee a fondamento della teoria della relatività
While learning Relativity in high school requires the pupils to think in ways that are not supported by their common reasoning, the teachers usually think that its understanding requires removing everyday experience. The paper describes a discussion in wich the author, […]
Anno XXIII - n.3 - luglio/settembre 1990 Le proprietà termiche dei materiali. II – Schemi di conoscenza di studenti ed insegnanti
Schemes of common sense knowledge of Italian students and teachers were inferred from the answers to a paper-and-pencil test concerning real-life situations involving thermal phenomena. Concept maps drawn from the test show that the schemes are richer and less detached from the scientific framework than generally supposed. […]
Anno XXIII - n.1 - gennaio/marzo 1990 Le proprietà termiche della materia. I – Nozioni di senso comune di studenti ed insegnanti
Schemes of commonsense knowledge of Italian students and teachers have been inferred by analyzing the answer to a paper and pencil test whose items are centered about real life situations involving thermal phenomena. The analysis, performed by the use of concept maps, […]