Grade-9 students’ conceptions about occurrence of seasons
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This research article deals with the investigation of students’ conception of 103 grade-9 students in one of the large size high schools in Chiang Mai province studying a science course in the second semester of year 2016 about the occurrence of seasons on Earth. All students were asked by the opened question that “How do seasons occur?” and were asked to explain for supporting their answers clearly. The answers of each student were analyzed and classified into groups by considering their reasons or their explanations. From analyzing the answers of each student found that most students used many reasons to explain the occurrence of seasons. Each student may give more than one reason to support his or her answers. The answers of each student can be grouped into 9 groups according to the reasons they used to support his or her answers about occurrence of seasons as followings; Earth’s self-rotation, travelling of the Earth around the Sun, the distance between the sun and the earth, the position of area on the earth’s surface, axial tilt of the earth, receiving light of each area on the earth surface, weather and storm and non-scientific reason, respectively. Most students still have some misconceptions about the occurrence of seasons.
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