Teaching Energy at Primary School with and ...

A new curriculum together with a novel educational software was designed and developed to teach the physical concept of energy. The software design has been discussed previously while a first educational trial to examine the suitability of this new educational material followed. In the present study, 3 groups of students of various ages participated. Experimental Group A was taught the subject with the aid of the novel software, experimental group B was taught the same curriculum without the use of the software, while group C served as control group and had not followed any special teaching except the one provided by the conventional education at school. Herein, a comparison will be made between the results obtained from the experimental group and those of the control group. The study concentrates, therefore, on how well the newly developed curriculum (-as contained in the new software) prepares the students on the subjects taught and tested, and whether or not the teaching with the new curriculum (be that with or without ICT) is more successful than the conventional one.