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“Be very, very careful what you put in that head because you will never, ever get it out.” While Cardinal Thomas Wolsey may have said that in the 1500’s, it does seem to aptly describes the case with many science concepts. Students seem to come into our classes with many incorrect, but strongly held, misunderstandings. A quick Google search will produce multitudes of lists of misconceptions in science, articles in popular publications, You Tube videos on the topic, and entire texts devoted to debunking popular though incorrect myths and beliefs about science.
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Morrell, P.D., Popejoy, K. (2014). Constructivism/Conceptual Change. In: Morrell, P.D., Popejoy, K. (eds) A Few of Our Favorite Things. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-779-7_1
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