Amy was a participant in the Understanding Science Project.
She was interviewed on 33 occasions: 8 times in Y10; 9 times in Y11; and 14 times in Y12 and twice in Y13.
A protein is something which is used for growth and repair
A visual teaching model of ionisation in the mass spectrometer
Chemical bonding and how atoms are joined together are completely different
Current only slows down at the resistor - by analogy with water flow
Energy can be created, but only in biology
Some crazy thing about a neutron turning into a proton or something
Amy suggests electrical resistance depends upon density
A more detailed account of student thinking in a topic:
Amy's account of mass spectrometry
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Dr Keith S Taber kst24@cam.ac.uk
University of Cambridge Faculty of Education