Introduction

The main goals of the MUSE project are:

• to go beyond excitement by helping students to get more understanding from simple experiments;

• to propose teachers some approaches and means to be used in class practice thus enlarging the range of their choices.

The target audience is:

• In-service teachers

• Pre-service teachers

• Physics education and physics education research communities

Added Value in Education (AVE) is aimed at through:

• comments on possible ways of fostering students' understanding;

• discussion of naive ideas and reasoning strategies conflicting with physics knowledge;

• spotlighting various viewpoints of the same phenomenon that may favour its links with contents not often presented in current teaching materials.