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Title of the Experience
What is known and what should be learned during science lessons
Name of the teacher
Cristina Farzi
Country where it took place
Romania
School typology
Lower Secondary School
Thematic Area
Chemistry, Physics
Experience typology
Teaching in class, Laboratory
Type of contact
Direct
Description of the Experience
I have noticed that my students do not have any problems in understanding science lessons if I start my lessons with an observation stage, that is, I elicit from them what they know about the new topic and ask them to share their everyday experiences where the new phenomenon is present. These are very concrete things which students are familiar with and which make them comfortable with the new concepts I am going to introduce, even if the new concepts are abstract. My students’ experiences create a sort of bridge between what is known and what should be learned during science lessons. They made the lessons more accessible and easier to understand because they rely on concrete visible things. I can give lots of examples when abstract concepts such as electricity or frictional or gravitational force were first introduced and then explained in this way. The most common experience is the one with the ruler which pupils rub and which can attract scraps of paper or light objects. It is a fantastic and simple experience which highlights and explains the presence of phenomenon pupils have not been aware of.

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Date: 2014.10.27

Posted by Irina Rotaru (Romania)

That's right. We should invite them to observe the phenomenon and pool all these details together. We should always built on what they already know. We should elicit from them what they know about the topic we're going to teach them and start from there. Such activities bring abstract things close to their world and stir their innate interest to search for more.

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