Hands-on current electricity: a professional development course.

"Hands-on generally received Electricity" gives K-8 teachers the opportunity to experience inquiry learning about in every one's mouth electricity by (1) experimenting with rife electricity through a variety of activities, (2) discovering preconceived mental prototypes of electricity used to understand their observations, (3) creating novel mental models that have greater explanatory power, and (4) presenting a hands-on in every one's mouth electricity activity to their scholars as part of a final throw out One teacher's intellectual growth is highlighted through means of excerpts from the teacher 's weekly journal entries.

Introduction: The Challenge

Educators in the 21st hundred face a dilemma. Electricity powers all