Use of the Lava® Lamp as an Analogy in the Geoscience Classroom

Autor:	Sherry D. Richmond, Stephen G. Tolley
Rok vydání:	2003
Předmět:	Energy (esotericism) Earth science Analogy Context (language use) General education Motion (physics) Education law.invention law Mathematics education General Earth and Planetary Sciences Lava lamp Meaning (existential) Psychology
Zdroj:	Journal of Geoscience Education. 51:217-220
ISSN:	2158-1428 1089-9995
DOI:	10.5408/1089-9995-51.2.217
Popis:	We have developed an exercise for the geoscience classroom that uses the LAVA lamp as an analogy to introduce general education undergraduate students to oceanography. The exercise provides a link between previously learned (from their secondary educational experience) and new knowledge by placing basic principles of science within an oceanographic context. Previously learned concepts that are built upon in the exercise address the properties of matter, the transformation of energy, force and motion, and the global processes that shape the Earth. The exercise requires students to compile an extensive list of observations using the lava lamp, to derive meaning from these observations and share this meaning with their peers, and to apply this meaning to new course content. Some of the more common observations recorded by students deal with changes of state in matter, differences in density among the lamp's components, the influence of temperature on density and thus on buoyancy, the formation of convection ...
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