Abstract (eng)
Electricity and energy are central components of our everyday lives. However, students often find it difficult to develop a physical understanding of them. Even after electricity lessons, many hold on to incomplete, insufficient or wrong ideas. So far, there has been little empirically researched teaching material for the topic of energy and especially energy transfer at secondary level, which is why a new teaching concept is to be developed as part of the dissertation project by Louisa Christine Winter. This Master's thesis is intended to make a small contribution to this by examining existing ideas and concepts with the help of an empirical study and comparing them with the theoretical foundations. For this purpose, nine semi-structured interviews were conducted with pupils of the 9th-10th grades in Vienna. The evaluation showed that all already known framework concepts could be found in the interviews. In addition, four new categories were manifested. Pupils have a wide variety of ideas and concepts that they draw on depending on the context and situation.