Learners' understanding and thinking about electrical charge

Some examples from ECLIPSE of what students have said relating to electrical charge:

K-plus represents a potassium atom that has an extra electron

Plus and minus signs represent the charges on atoms

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


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