TY - JOUR
T1 - Scratch as a computational modelling tool for teaching physics
AU - Lopez, Victor
AU - Hernandez, Maria Isabel
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - © 2015 IOP Publishing Ltd. The Scratch online authoring tool, which features a simple programming language that has been adapted to primary and secondary students, is being used more and more in schools as it offers students and teachers the opportunity to use a tool to build scientific models and evaluate their behaviour, just as can be done with computational modelling programs. In this article, we briefly discuss why Scratch could be a useful tool for computational modelling in the primary or secondary physics classroom, and we present practical examples of how it can be used to build a model.
AB - © 2015 IOP Publishing Ltd. The Scratch online authoring tool, which features a simple programming language that has been adapted to primary and secondary students, is being used more and more in schools as it offers students and teachers the opportunity to use a tool to build scientific models and evaluate their behaviour, just as can be done with computational modelling programs. In this article, we briefly discuss why Scratch could be a useful tool for computational modelling in the primary or secondary physics classroom, and we present practical examples of how it can be used to build a model.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84928748843
U2 - 10.1088/0031-9120/50/3/310
DO - 10.1088/0031-9120/50/3/310
M3 - Article
SN - 0031-9120
VL - 50
SP - 310
EP - 316
JO - Physics Education
JF - Physics Education
IS - 3
ER -