Primary Physical Science Education: An Imaginative Approach to Encounters with Nature

This open access book is the first of two volumes that integrates a study of direct encounters with Primary Forces of Nature, Wind, Light, Rain, Heat and Cold, Water, etc., with imaginative narrative forms of communication.

The approach developed in this book shows how the growth of cognitive tools (first of mythic and then of romantic forms of understanding) lets children make sense of experiencing physical phenomena. An in—depth description of Fluids, Gravity, and Heat as Basic Forces sh...