1. What do you think this subject is about ?

2. What do you already know about this subject ?

3. What topics do you think will be covered in this subject ?

It is anticipated that they will respond with things such as temperature, heat, flow of heat, how hot and cold things are, etc. Some secondary questions (only to be asked if the student has volunteered some information on that particular topic) might be :-

a. What do you understand by the word heat ? Please explain.

b. What do you understand by the word temperature ? Please explain.

c. What do you think might be the relationship between heat and temperature ? Please explain.

d. What do you think might be the relationship between the temperature of an object and how hot or cold it is ? Please explain.

It is worth asking these questions both at the start and at the end of a lecture course. Many students incorrect preconception from the first lecture will remain even at the end of a course. Click here to return to the Main menu Click here to return to the Index page

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