Conveners
Parallel 4 - Wroclaw: Thematic discussion - Context Based Problems for Electricity Topics in Introductory Physics Courses
- Phuong Linh Tran (Technical Assistant)
- Ewa Dębowska (University of Wrocław)
- Almer Gungor
Parallel 4 - Wroclaw: Presentation 4.2 - School physics education
- Freek Pols
- Phuong Linh Tran (Technical Assistant)
- Robert Bryl (Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Wroclaw)
Parallel 4 - Wroclaw: Presentation 4.1 - Contemporary physics and modern physics
- Phuong Linh Tran (Technical Assistant)
- Sascha Hohmann
- Bartosz Strzelczyk (University of Wroclaw)
Parallel 4 - Wroclaw: Symposium 4.1 - Innovation in Kindergarten and Primary School Teacher Education in Physical Sciences
- Ngoc Diep Ta (Technical Assistant)
- Federico Corni (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Abstract. Electromagnetism topics—might seem as irrelevant for some disciplines at the first sight—can easily be related to students’ home disciplines and everyday-lives by integrating relevant contexts to the topics or problems. Therefore, we would like to provide examples that integrate contexts relevant to everyday lives/future careers of students from various bachelor programs. We have...
Learning to engage in scientific inquiry is an important goal in secondary physics education. However, attaining this learning goal continues to be a challenge. We addressed this problem by devising and testing a teaching sequence that aims at developing students’ (aged 14-15) understanding of and adherence to scientific criteria. We observed, that after going through this sequence, the...
Innovation in Kindergarten and Primary School Teacher Education in Physical Sciences.
Speakers
Federico CORNI
Faculty of Education, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy)
Stamatis Vokos
Department of Physics, California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, USA
Description
Symposium
Innovation in Kindergarten and Primary School Teacher Education in Physical...
Remote telescopes in education provide the opportunity to obtain high quality images with little effort. The Stellarium Gornergrat is such a telescope. In addition to pure observation, it offers user-friendly interface and teaching documents so that astronomical and astrophysical projects can be integrated into everyday school life without any special prior knowledge and without spending a lot...
The significance of the albedo for the terrestrial climate
The albedo is defined as the ratio of reflected to incident light on a body in the case of diffuse reflection. For celestial bodies—such as the planets, asteroids or comets—the albedo is an essential quantity, because on the one hand it determines their visibility and on the other hand it allows statements about their surface...
Investigating high school students’ difficulties with wave optics
Karolina MATEJAK CVENIC1, Lana IVANJEK2, Maja PLANINIC1, Ana SUSAC3, Katarina JELICIC1, Martin HOPF4
1 Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Bijenička c. 32, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
2 Faculty of Physics, Physics Education Research, Technische Universität Dresden, Haeckelstraße 3, 8 01069 Dresden,...
I will look at Plato from a point of view of a particle physicist. I find his philosophy surprisingly relevant for the current development in our field, and, vice versa, modern physics offers precious input into deep philosophical questions, in particular about the role and nature of beauty, the quality appreciated in various forms by all people.
Abstract. Project-Based Learning methodology has been used to experiment with high school students' interdisciplinary learning crunch focused on symmetries. Students were involved in some highly symmetric solids’ buildings. Symmetry has been investigated in Art, Philosophy, and Mathematics by using ICT, too. Finally, students built some symmetric electrical networks, and they verified the main...
Quantum Technologies will have fundamental social and economical implications in
the next future. Therefore is urgent to make new generations aware of disruptive potential of these technologies so they can fell part of the second quantum revolution. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we designed and implemented a teaching learning sequence for high school students about the core concepts of...
