Pre-Workshop Activities
Instruction Materials

Resources & Research

Other
Links

Readings

• Model and it's relevance for instruction - read all please
• System, model and simulation - read definitions (top of page)
• Mental models - read first paragraph on this page
• Read introduction and conclusion of this paper: Hrepic 2002
• Read first two examples of conceptual change in childhood in this paper Vosniadou 1994
  (those related to the concept of Earth starting on page 52 and those related to the day/night cycle starting on page 56 and finishing on page 59)
• Read first 10 pages (147-156) of chapter:  Developing Understanding Through Model-Based Inquiry
  (pages listed above correspond to 515 - 524 on scanned pages).

• Please do read these materials as this will help us make most of our time together. All readings are pretty short, cute and interesting.

Software Installations

• DyKnow
• DyKnow Software Info

• Model Based Instruction - Theory and Practice (Presentation)
• Magnets activity (Presentation)
• Sound wave model activity (Presentation)

• Magnets Module
• Astronomy and Evolution Module
• Sound Module

• Mental model definition and context dependence - Excerpt from Zdeslav Hrepic's MS Thesis
  (sorry about issues in bibliography formatting in this excerpt - reformatting from older version of EndNote software had limited success)

Other

• Mental Models Website
• Mental Model Musings
• MM in Sci Ed
• MM and Usability
• Wikipedia on MM