SHORT MOVIES PRESENTING PHYSICS EXPERIMENT WITH HANDY OBJECTS - A NEW PERSPECTIVE IN PHYSICS EDUCATION
SHORT MOVIES PRESENTING PHYSICS EXPERIMENT WITH HANDY OBJECTS - A NEW PERSPECTIVE IN PHYSICS EDUCATION

Summary/Abstract: In the past three decades the physics equipment in our undergraduate education has a severe falling. Furthermore, the obsolete teaching methods became rules in our educational system. That is why the physics teaching hours became dull for the students and very abstract. The interest of the students for physics has fallen to the lowest level. We consider that the situation ca be improved using some simple ways of learning. The most motivating method of the approach to a certain physics subject is the well-known Inquiry Based Learning method. This method assumes that the student guided by the teacher, discovers the lows and the explanations for certain natural physics phenomena using the research tools and methods. And of course, the student must see and reproduce the phenomenon in the lab. We realized a lot of short movies (6 to 20 seconds) with handy objects that can be reproduced by the teacher or by the student itself (both in the lab and at home!), aiming a certain physic phenomenon. These movies are addressed only to the teacher. They are showing certain experiments to be effectively realized in the classroom, or in the lab. Such significant experiments can be a reasonable start in IBL teaching method. Each movie is offered to the teachers with a document: the user guide. Here one can find information about the software attributes, the primary phenomenological explanation and (if it is reasonable) the detailed scientific explanation with exhaustive calculus. There is a chapter offering some information about the technical realizing of the experiment, how to find the objects and where from. It is offered the possibility to the applicants to give both their feedback to the authors and some suggestion to improve the quality of the educational movie. It is in our intention to generate a national educational movement about IBL method using physics short movies with handle objects.

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