Teaching and learning about energy in New Zealand secondary school junior science classrooms

Abstract

The Learning in Science Project (Energy), abbreviated to LISP (Energy), is a three-year project funded by the New Zealand Department of Education to investigate teaching and learning about the energy concept in New Zealand primary and secondary schools. LISP (Energy) follows LISP and LISP (primary) in which the prior understandings which students bring to science lessons, and strategies to involve these ideas in teaching and learning, were explored. Substantial reports of these previous projects are Osborne and Freyberg (1985) and Biddulph and Osborne (1984).