Science teachers’ views of creating and teaching Big Ideas of science education: experiences from Chile

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Figure 1. (a) Teachers’ gender. (b) Teachers’ initial training. (c) Teachers’ level of school in which they were currently teaching. (d) Teachers’ type of school/institution.

Table 1. The variety of experiences of teaching with Big Ideas in terms of level of schooling and the Big Ideas teachers reported teaching.

Level of schooling	Big ideas teacher said they had taught
12	Ethical, political and social implications of science applications
11	Origin of π, First experiments with electricity, Origin of batteries
	Theory of evolution and Nature of science
	Different processes and the role of energy
10	Concentration in chemistry
	Relevance of friction
	Movement
	Everything is due to the genes
	Mechanics and Newton’s laws
9	Observation skills for developing criteria of diversity
	Energy and matter and its transformations
7	Boundaries for protection in the human body
	Models in science
	Matter in the universe made by small particles
6	Conservation of animals
5	The universe is made up by very small particles
	Electricity
	Organisms are organised on a cellular basis
2	Evolution in different vertebrate animals (commonalities)
Teacher training (primary)	Energy
Teacher training (secondary)	Autopoiesis

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Pre-primary	Primary	Secondary	University
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Public	Semi-private	Private
ꀀ	ꀀ	ꀀ