Context based questions optics in animal eyes

2011-01-01
Kaltakçı Gürel, Derya
Eryılmaz, Ali
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Context is important as a motivational factor for student involvement with physics. The diversity in the types and the functions of animal eyes is an excellent context in which to achieve this goal. There exists a range of subtopics in optics including pinhole, reflection, refraction, and superposition that can be discussed in the context of the animal eye. In addition to ordinary textbook optics questions, the use of context-based questions that model the real world may increase the students’ motivation toward optics concepts and their understanding of them. In this article, different optical systems in animal eyes are discussed as a context to teach optics topics with context-based questions.
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/85962
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0031-9120/46/3/012/pdf
Physics Education
Department of Secondary Science and Mathematics Education, Article

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D. Kaltakçı Gürel and A. Eryılmaz, “Context based questions optics in animal eyes,” Physics Education, pp. 323–327, 2011, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/85962.
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