Le idee intuitive dei bambini sul campo gravitazionale

The intuitive ideas about the gravitational field of 5 to 9 year-old children were explored in an informal science context with the aim to connect common experience and scientific knowledge through spontaneous thinking. Oral questioning based on a written questionnaire, discussion, Rogers? dialogues and the children?s drawings were used for the inquiry. The formal and objective analogies, the proposed situations and the work protocol were studied for this specific research. The results offer indications on how to construct classroom proposals for the teaching and learning of the gravitational field.