Learners' understanding and thinking about change of state

Some examples from ECLIPSE of what students have said relating to changes of state:

Iron is too heavy to evaporate (see also Iron turning into a gas sounded weird)

Temperature is measuring the heat of something

When you vaporise something, it totally disappears

This is just one of a wide range of science topics that learners have talked about in ECLIPSE projects.


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