Post by account_disabled on Aug 30, 2023 1:38:51 GMT -5
By actual scientists. For instance, you can measure motion the way Galileo did with inclined planes to find the relationship among force, mass, and acceleration.
Or you can make a simple motor like Faraday did to see the relationship between a magnetic field and an electric current. You can also measure charge the way Coulomb did with electroscopes.
When we look at these experiments, we see STEM Science Technology Switzerland Mobile Number List Engineering, and Mathematics integration done beautifully. STEM integration is in demand. Why not bring these experiments into the classroom and let the children do a little design engineering to improve a measurement? For instance, when Galileo did his experiment, he didn’t have a stopwatch. He had to engineer a tool to measure time.
RG: Many of the experiments you recommend can also be carried out at home. Was that your intention – or just the beauty of physics and its “toys”?
JH, EB: That was not the intention, although home schooling parents can easily do all of this at home. The main fact (in American elementary schools) is that teachers don’t have useful budgets for science, so these experiments should all be done with materials that can be bought at a hardware store or supermarket.
RG: Five father-son duos have won the Nobel Prize in Physics.* Why do you think that is?
JH, EB: This topic is interesting and very complex, and we’re probably are not the people who understand it! If we could add our two cents, we see this as “mentoring across the kitchen table” which can be fantastically empowering.
Or you can make a simple motor like Faraday did to see the relationship between a magnetic field and an electric current. You can also measure charge the way Coulomb did with electroscopes.
When we look at these experiments, we see STEM Science Technology Switzerland Mobile Number List Engineering, and Mathematics integration done beautifully. STEM integration is in demand. Why not bring these experiments into the classroom and let the children do a little design engineering to improve a measurement? For instance, when Galileo did his experiment, he didn’t have a stopwatch. He had to engineer a tool to measure time.
RG: Many of the experiments you recommend can also be carried out at home. Was that your intention – or just the beauty of physics and its “toys”?
JH, EB: That was not the intention, although home schooling parents can easily do all of this at home. The main fact (in American elementary schools) is that teachers don’t have useful budgets for science, so these experiments should all be done with materials that can be bought at a hardware store or supermarket.
RG: Five father-son duos have won the Nobel Prize in Physics.* Why do you think that is?
JH, EB: This topic is interesting and very complex, and we’re probably are not the people who understand it! If we could add our two cents, we see this as “mentoring across the kitchen table” which can be fantastically empowering.