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Abstract
The current study presents the results of a qualitative research on the mental representations of children aged 5-6 years regarding the coagulation of everyday materials. Initially, children’s representations on coagulation of butter and chocolate were studied in a pre-test through three different tasks. Subsequently, a teaching intervention was implemented based on a storytelling approach, which is embedded in a socio-constructivist perspective with the aim of establishing a precursor model in children’s thinking about coagulation. Finally, in a post-test, children’s representations after the teaching intervention were studied. The results of the research showed that children have made significant progress in the post-test as the majority of them recognize cooling as a factor in the coagulation of the above materials.
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1 Department of Education, School of Education, University of Nicosia , 46 Makedonitissas Ave., CY-2417, Nicosia, Cyprus
2 Department of Educational Sciences and Early Childhood Education, University of Patras , Patras, 265 04, Greece
3 Department of Early Childhood Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens , Zografou, Greece