SCIENCE MISCONCEPTIONS

A misconception is a result of individual believing in a wrong thing. The concept of any subject is not clear, and it goes on with the passage of time. Science misconceptions are a result where people believe something and not matches with the scientific theories. The mistake picked for learning is about the amount of daylight hours increases in each day of summer. In summer, there are fewer night hours and more day hours. That has also become a misconception in the modern world. The study discussed causes and reasons for this misconception. That will help the learning of students and clear their vision about the scientific theories. 

The students will have to analyze the factors and come up with a practical implication where they can overcome the misconception. For this purpose, we will watch a short video which is related to theories of science. This video can help the students better analyze the misconceptions, and learn how daylight hours are different in summer and winter. In addition to the steps and points that students will take into their account, to clear this misconception about the daylight hours, they will have to write about what they know about the day and night hours, what causes the daylight hours to change. Then, they will use these questions and make a general discussion on how to rectify these misconceptions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drujIxWmxyc

Watching this video which is about “Why the Days are Shorter in Winter and Longer in Summer” will help the students to learn about the misconceptions created about the daylight hours. It illustrates how the tilt of the earth makes an effect on the northern and southern hemisphere, and how the daylight hours increase in summer and decrease in winter.

The video also tells about the tilt and axis of the earth around the sun. It says about how the earth's tilt is shifted and why we have a different season in a year. Before this, it is also explained that how much the earth revolves around the sun in a whole year.

Besides this, students can do an activity where they can take two balls. Put one ball in the center, and mark the other ball black. After this, revolve the marked ball around the center ball. That will help them explain the tilting and shifting of the earth.

After watching the video and doing the two balls experiment, the assessment is going to be implemented by asking them questions about what they learned and how they learned. Students need to answer the following questions, to help the teacher to evaluate what they learned on the subject.

•What misconceptions have you cleared by the study?

•What have you learned from watching the video and the activity?

•What have you understood about daylight hours in different regions?

•What have you learned from the two ball experiment.

The volume of daylight hours, depending upon the latitude and the theory of earth’s axis. Rotation of shaft is skewed from the orbital line, and it is always pointed in the same direction, i.e., towards the Star in the North (Oberoi, 2017). That results in the variation of Earth's axis, which is changing whole year, as the earth is revolving around the sun. As this positioning is changing in the entire year, the Earth’s sunlight also changes upon any autonomy.

That causes a change in climate difference in the intensity of the sun’s light, which is reaching Earth’s bed and affects the number of hours and the daylight (Gurel, Eryılmaz & McDermott, 2015). Therefore, misconceptions about science have been conceived long ago, and they should be rectified to understand the nature better.

Gurel, D. K., Eryılmaz, A., & McDermott, L. C. (2015). A review and comparison of diagnostic  instruments to identify students' misconceptions in science. Eurasia Journal of  Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 11(5).

Oberoi, M. (2017). Review of literature on student’s misconceptions in science. International  Journal Of Scientific Research And Education, 5(03).

Why the days are shorter in winter and longer in summer. (2015). Retrieved February 23, 2018,  from https://youtu.be/drujIxWmxyc