Supporting primary children’s understanding of physics
New software has significant benefits for primary school children and their understanding of elementary physics, research shows. Studies funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) focused on what primary school children know when they begin studying physics, and how much they still have to learn. The studies looked at how much children understand about the movement of objects such as direction and speed. The studies show that the tasks used in schools to assess how children understand the movement of objects seriously underestimate how much they know already. Professor