Modeling and emotional change in initial teacher training in primary education: an example with chemical change Authors Carlos Agudelo-Carvajal Universitat de Barcelona. Departament d’Educació Lingüística i Literària i de Didàctica de les Ciències Experimentals i de la Matemàtica Carolina Pipitone-Vela Universitat de Barcelona. Departament d’Educació Lingüística i Literària i de Didàctica de les Ciències Experimentals i de la Matemàtica Àngela García-Lladó Universitat de Barcelona. Departament d’Educació Lingüística i Literària i de Didàctica de les Ciències Experimentals i de la Matemàtica DOI: 10.2436/20.2003.02.244 Keywords: modeling, chemical change, dialogic activities, emotions Abstract An experience of chemical modeling of the subject Didactics of Matter, Energy and Interaction (DMEI) of Primary Education is presented and it is explained how it can help teachers in initial training (PFI) to build knowledge in providing their mental models in social interaction and with the phenomena and can live emotions towards physics and chemistry. It describes the context of DMEI, the POEMA activities (prediction, observation, explanation, modeling, argumentation), the modeling proposal and explains how to favor the construction of school scientific explanations with meaning for the PFI. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2023-10-18 Issue No. 31 (2022) Section Formació del professorat License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Educació Química, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Societat Catalana de Química (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Educació Química.Authors answer to Societat Catalana de Química for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.Societat Catalana de Química declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.Educació Química is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.