"El café tiene cafeína y nos despierta, nos da energía": concepciones sobre la energía química, una buena razón para poner de acuerdo a los profesores de Física y Química y ciencias Naturales

A research was carried on students* conceptions about chemical energy. The experimental sample were students from primary level to university. Word association tasks and a paper and pencil question were used as instruments for collecting data. The test revealed that some students share certain alternative conceptions about chemical energy, and that most of them use ideas about chemical energy in a similar way to what people without formal instruction in this issue would do. Some implications for science teaching -learning are suggested.