Science on Stage festival 2017
POLSKA DELEGACJA Science on Stage 2017
Polska delegacja liczyła 14 osób wyłonionych w trakcie krajowego festiwalu Ogólnopolskiego Festiwalu NAUKI PRZYRODNICZE NA SCENIE 7,
POLSKIE SUKCESY
Podczas festiwalu w Debreczynie mgr Konstancja Nowakowska z Gimnazjum im. Mikołaja Kopernika w Złotym Stoku poprowadziła warsztaty (Workshop) „Circus show”.
Opis projektu:
CIRCUS SHOW (Cyrkowe show)
The „Circus show” workshop refers to teachers who are looking for activating methods by combining different areas of life and exploring the role of physics. So we will move to the famous Copernicus circus to take part in the show and to admire the performances of acrobats, jugglers and trainers. In our show we will see how one group of students becomes circus performers who perform gymnastic pyramids, walking on the balance beam, plates and hoops juggling, and train the dragon. At the same time, the second group of students will do physical experiments referred to the show. The main purpose is to present the impact of centre of gravity, inertia, Magnus effect, centrifugal force or resilience on the circus show. The main aim of the project is answering the question whether tightrope walking, juggling, hat throwing and acrobatic shows are supernatural or whether is it just pure physics.
Conclusion:
Are tightrope walking, juggling, hat throwing, acrobatics shows supernatural or it is just pure Physics? „Circus show” is a „Physics show”
WORKSHOPS
Workshop: Science And Our Environment
CIRCUS SHOW
Konstancja Nowakowska
FAIR
| Science in Early Years
LITTLE EXPLORERS – KIDS DISCOVER THE WORLD OF SCIENCE
Emilia Khan, 1st Polish-English Nonpublic Kindergarten with Nursery Division “Little Explorers Academy” in Rogoźno
Knowing that children already are curious researchers and explorers, they learn by doing, picking up their experiences “by the hand, heart and head”, this project presents 10 experiments about air and its properties. It is well known that the existence of the air we breathe is an abstract phenomenon for a child and therefore, on the other hand, the most interesting discovery. When we ask children: “Is there something inside the empty glass?” We will get the following answer from a preschooler: “There’s nothing.” I decided to change that and encourage children to explore the common world through simple experiments that can be carried out also in the house.
| Science And Our Environment
CIRCUS SHOW
Konstancja Nowakowska, Junior High School in Złoty Stok
The educational project “Circus show” presents a performance that aims at explaining various phenomena and laws of physics used during a show by circus artists. These artists are acrobats on the ground and on the line, jugglers, tumblers, magicians and trainers. In the presentation you learn about the impact of the center of gravity, inertia, the Magnus effect, centrifugal force or resilience on the circus show. The main aim of the project is to find an answer to the following question: Are tightrope walking, juggling, hat throwing and acrobatic shows supernatural or is it just pure physics?
MANTIS – BIOLOGICAL LIFE CYCLE
Cezary Filipiuk, 1st Eugeniusz Romer High School in Pszczyna
The project was based on one-year-long observation of two different species of mantis. During this time the full life cycle of both species was recorded. The research focused on how the environment affects the coloration of the insects, how the number of intaken food affects their growth and evolution and how mantises adapt themselves to live as predators. Apart from the observations a photographic documentation was completed.
| Inclusive Science
BEAUTY OF NATURE – LICHTENBERG FIGURES
Jerzy Jarosz, University of Silesia in Katowice
Using the typical school electrostatic machine as high voltage source, the Lichtenberg figures may be obtained in a very spectacular way. By interpreting their geometry and fractal-like patterns, we have the chance to see and realise the beauty of both mathematics and nature.
PLASMA SPEAKER: PLASMA AND IT’S UNUSUAL PROPERTIES | video
Małgorzata Kramer-Wachowiak, Group of High Schools in Śrem
In this project an experimental plasma speaker set will be presented to demonstrate phenomena concerning plasma. In this show electric arc will serve us as an example of plasma to examine its unusual properties and learn about its different forms. The first element of the experiment will be plasma recreating music, later we will focus on its temperature and properties of flames, before the plasma structure and its interaction with magnets is analysed. In the end we will focus on its different forms in everyday life and plasma and normal gas similarity. Everything will be summarized by plasma applications and its future prospects.
SILVER FRACTALS
Marzena Trybuszewska, 1st Leszczynski Family High School in Leszno
This project focuses on the clarification of the concept of fractal and on presenting examples for their relevance to everyday life. The project shows an experiment procedure on “Silver fractals”, that is electrolytic reduction of silver from ammonia salt solutions of this metal. Observations and explanation of occurring reactions are presented and the process and the mechanism of electrolysis are brought to mind. Furthermore the results of previous attempts are presented and it is demonstrated that the received structure is a fractal.
| Cooperation For Science Teaching
ON THE TRAIL OF THE MYSTERIOUS RADIO WAVES WORLD
Kazimierz Paprzycki, Group of A Mickiewicz Schools in Objezierze
The presentation shows how a group of lower secondary school students built a radio telescope. With this radio telescope one can receive radio waves of the Sun and the Earth as well as the radio waves of artificial satellites of the Earth and internet radio transmitters. The radio telescope was built with inexpensive and widely available materials coming from home satellite receiving systems.
SCIENCE – DIFFERENT SUBJECTS OR ONE SUBJECT TAUGHT BY DIFFERENT TEACHERS?
Teresa Wróbel, 1st Z. Herbert Societal High School in Częstochowa
In my project I look at a science teaching problem that already starts at primary school, when children start their experience with science, to high school, when students learn physics, chemistry, biology, geography as seperate subjects. They sometimes do not see correlations between these subjects. I give some ideas what teachers can do to help students noticing these connections.
| Low-Cost Science
BIOPHYSICAL INSPIRATIONS
Aneta Mika, S Czarniecki High School No 6 in Szczecin/College of Education and Therapy
Biophysics is a science which applies research methodology characteristic of physics to perform the analysis of the structures of organ systems, biological phenomena and processes. It aims at interpreting life processes by means of methodology adopted from physical sciences. In this project students are introduced to biophysical modeling – a simplified method of solving a particular research problem and as an interesting method of student motivation during lessons.
HOW TO SEE INVISIBLE AND MOVE THINGS WITH SOUND? | video
Beata Świder, 1st Eugeniusz Romer High School in Rabka-Zdrój
My greatest dream as a teacher of physics is to inspire my students to learn. I am often looking for new, more attractive experiments for students, which can arouse their interest. I would like to share my experiences related to the experiments that my students built and presented. “Seeing the invisible” using Schlieren optics and “Moving things with sound” using Helmholtz resonance.
MAGNETIC FORCES | video
Zenona Stojecka, Tadeusz Kosciuszko High School in Wieluń
This project presents a couple of experiments that introduce magnetic interaction, focusing on Lorenz’s force. It is suitable for everyday classes and adapts to a wellknown methodology: inquiry based learning. After seeing the experiments students will definitely ask themselves: how does it work? For example the students learn about the magnetohydrodynamic effect where liquid moves into two ways simultaneously. With a magnetic train they learn about the rule how the linear homoplar motor works. They make a magnetic vehicle move and they construct a magnetic piston engine.
PICNICS AND FESTIVALS – ATTRACTIVE WAY TO BRING SCIENCE CLOSER TO YOUNG AUDIENCES
Maria Dobkowska & Wojciech Nawrocik, Group of Integrated Schools No 62 in Warsaw & Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Our idea was to make science interesting for children while visiting science events. Since 8 years our school has a stand at the National Science Picnic and since 7 years at the Little Man Science Festival in Warsaw. Our students are very eager to present interesting and different experiments and become teachers and guides to science for younger colleagues at these events. Many of the exhibits and experiments are personally invented and made by students of cheap or recycled materials. Our students are kind and friendly to kids, they like to play with young visitors at our school stands. I will present posters and photographic documentation of our presence at these science events.
ZOBACZ WIĘCEJ
GUIDEBOOK Science On Stage Festival 2017 DEBRECEN
Science on Stage festival 2017, przegląd wybranych projektów, video
SCIENCE on Stage 2017 Demonstrations and teaching ideas selected by the Irish team
After the Festival - Follow up activities at Science on Stage
Science on stage 2017 - Superquark, video
