中学理科におけるError-based Simulationを用いた授業実践 : 「ニュートンに挑戦」プロジェクト

A Classroom Practice of Error-based Simulation to Improve Pupils' Understanding of Mechanics: The "Challenge to Newton!" Project

Imai Isao

Toumoto Takahito

Horiguchi Tomoya

Hirashima Tsukasa

教育システム情報学会誌

Transactions of Japanese Society for Information and Systems in Education

This paper reports on the practice of a lesson in a junior high school in which Error-based Simulation (EBS) was used to help students learn elementary mechanics. EBS simulates the motion of a mechanical system assuming that students' erroneous solutions were correct. EBS has been proved to be effective in laboratory experiments. Twenty-four students participated in the lesson lasting 110 minutes and learned mechanics by using the system which generates and shows EBS. They also worked on the pre-/ post-/delay-tests and were interviewed by the teacher after the lesson. The results are as follows: (1) Through the highly motivating lesson activities, the students discovered the knowledge of mechanics by themselves, (2) It was highly effective in improving the students' performance in solving mechanics problems. Furthermore, this improvement was maintained, and (3) the usability of the system proved sufficient for practice in classroom lessons. These results arc encouraging for the practical use of EBS in junior high school lessons.

Error-based Simulation (EBS)

力学

Newtonの第三法則

授業実践

中学理科

Education [ 370 ]

jpn

教育システム情報学会

Copyright (c) 2008 教育システム情報学会

[ISSN] 1341-4135

[NCID] AN10474042