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The aim of the study was to identify levels and model of understansding of prospective primary school teachers related to concepts of heat convection. This study uses the descriptive quantitative method. Research subject were 30 prospective primary school teachers at one university in Riau Province who had attended the basic concepts of science course with their lecturers. The instrument used to collect data is a conceptual understanding test consisting of four parts of the questions. The results showed that profile of levels of understanding of primary school teachers retated to concept of heat convection are: Sound Understanding (SU) (0 %), Partial Understanding (PU) (47%), Incorrect Understanding (IU) (20%), No Understanding (NU) (20%), No response (NR) (13%), and profile of model of understanding are: Optimum Model (OM) (0%), Uncreative Model (UM) (10%), Theoretical Model (TM) (20%), Practical Model (PM) (17%), Memorizing Model (MM) (20%), Inappropriate Model (IM) (33%). These results indicated that lectures on basic concept of science carried out by the lecturers had not facilitated the achievement of the sound understanding level and the optimum understanding model for prospective primary school teachers.