28th International Conference on Multimedia in Physics Teaching and Learning (MPTL'28)

Experience-Based Physics Learning with Digital Tools – From a School Project to Building a Satellite

Not scheduled

20m

Oral presentation Modern Equipment and Technology to Improve Physics Teaching and Learning Oral Presentations

Speaker

Luca Major

Description

Project-based learning (PBL) is gaining increasing popularity in modern education, offering students the opportunity to deepen their knowledge through active, experience-driven engagement. In my presentation, I will showcase a complex project that integrates physics and geography, focusing on the specific state changes of gases and a segment of thermodynamics. As part of the project, students worked in groups to create an animation explaining the process of cloud formation, which they later presented to their peers. The theoretical and practical knowledge required for this task was acquired through interactive worksheets featuring simulations, video analysis, and measurement tasks. One of the project highlights was a sensor supported measurement activity—using pressure and temperature sensors—investigating the adiabatic process of gases. This initiative proved so inspiring that my students eventually built their own satellite for the CanSat Hungary Competition, where one of the missions involved examining this physical process under real atmospheric conditions.

Keywords: project-based learning, physics education, digital tools, thermodynamics, adiabatic process, student project, CanSat, cloud formation.