Representation of Elementary School Teachers on Concept of Heat Transfer

The purpose of this study is to get a decription of how elementary teachers represent the understanding on the concept of heat transfer both conduction and convection to their students. This is a descriptive research, data collect by asking teacher to give their picture and explanation about the heat transfer concept. Subjects in this study there are six teachers who already have experience teaching over five years. Based on the analysis results obtained that the representation of teachers in the concept of heat transfer there are many alternative conceptions and in the description of the given phenomenon is less able to provide optimal explanation for students. The impact of teacher representation that is not in accordance with scientific rules will cause the learners not optimal for students to understand the concepts. Therefore to produce a better and tangible learning for students the teacher needs to improve his understanding that will support his representation in explaining the concept to the students more better.