Title: Snmka 1
1ADVENTURE OF KNOWLEDGE
2PHYSICA INSITA
Target groups
- MOTIVATION
- Promoting the kids trust to the fact that the
surrounding world is understandable on the
rational basis - Introducing physics as a part of cultural
heritage - Combining natural sciences with fine arts
- Revealing of the way how specific physical terms
are understood by small kids
2 classes kindergarden kids aged 4 to 6
2 classes of kids aged from 8 to 9
3METHOD-CRAYON PHYSICS
Hands on experiments
Demonstrations
Paintings of protocols
Project outcome
4LIMITS OF METHOD
- Duration of each presentation should not exceed
45 minutes - Each presentation should consist of maximally 3
simple statements proven by experiments - in the painting phase one must carefully balance
between giving the kids unlimited freedom in
expressing their impressions from experiments on
one side and requiring only graphical record of
realized paintings on the other side.
5EXAMPLE THE AIR
The air occupies the space empty glass is not
empty The air can exert a force The air is
compressible The hot air goes upwards baloons
6PAINTINGS - KINDERGARDEN
7PAINTINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
8Physics in Strip Cartoons
9EXAMPLESOUND
- Sound is mechanical wave
- It spreads in the space from point to point in
solids , liquids and gases - Concept of frequency and
- Resonance
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11Demonstration of the fact that the sound is
mechanical wave, playing on the flute or hitting
on the end of the pipe the blows out the candle
123 experiments are displayed
A set of bottles with different amount of water
different pitch of the note
Duck like sounds produced by wet cord
Shirrs of different lengths produce different
sounds
13EXAMPLELIGHT
- Light wave goes straitforward
- Light reflects concept of mirror
- Refraction of light
- White light color spectrum
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16CONCLUSIONS
- The kids really take the course as the fun and
they do not consider they learn, - but they play scientists in the same way, like
they play mum and daddy, doctor, policemen etc
.. - Danger one must avoid being of the MAGIC-MAN in
kindergarten, and avoid - kids in elementary school to transform to
cyclopedia eaters more thinking, than reading - Even such a small kids are able to form their own
vision of the basic physical terms, however, some
are understood in a very special way- gravity is
due to the big strong muscle buried deep in the
ground - Open task is continuing to search for optimal
balance between the freedom in drawings content
and the precise copying of experiments realized
the day before
17- My thanks to
- The kids for their enthusiasm and originality of
interpretation - Teachers for their interest in the project and
technical help - Professional painter Mgr. Art. Andrea Cepiáková
for methodical - help in the painting part of the project
- but first of all to Dr. Marián Mihalik and
Klárka Broschová as they are helping me in
choosing proper topics and experiments
The presented work was supported by APVV agency
as LPP-003006 project entitled Scientific
incubator for pupils and students