Can teachers intercept children's naive intuitions before they take permanent root?

Psychology Today Magazine
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Field Test: What Goes Up

Can teachers intercept children's naive intuitions before they take permanent root?

By Colin Weatherby, published on September 03, 2012 - last reviewed on November 07, 2012

Nearly 20 percent of American high schoolers struggle to understand basic science concepts at the time of graduation, and teachers routinely cite core physics principles—gravity, density, inertia—as the most difficult ideas for students to grasp. Like many teachers, Samantha Greenstein spends a lot of time unraveling her students' faulty logic. "They see pictures of the solar system and figure the planets are going to crash into each other," says Greenstein, who teaches middle school science in Solana Beach, California.

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It seems that kids are ready to understand much more than what we thought so some years ago. Let's read the article!

Isn't it amazing to understand that things are "slightly" different from what we thought before?