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Title of the Experience
Link science with real situations
Name of the teacher
Petru Raducanu
Country where it took place
Romania
School typology
High Secondary School
Thematic Area
Maths
Experience typology
Teaching in class
Type of contact
Direct
Description of the Experience
Science is difficult to learn and teach if it is not rooted in our students’ life. Experiments help us link science with real situations. They provide us with simple situations through which we can explain complex concepts. The way a lens works may be a complicated one but making your own lens can stir your curiosity and help you find out how this functions. We used a filled round-bottom wine goblet as a lens to focus the light from a candle onto a wall. I invited students to compare the image on the wall to the original object. I asked them to look carefully at the world through the wine gobble and then to look carefully at the world through a beer mug. They also had to observe everything and reflect on what they did. The most amusing one was with a large shiny spoon as a mirror when students were asked to compare their image in the bowl and back of the spoon. They were also asked to observe carefully the image of their pointed finger as they moved it toward the bowl of the spoon until it touched the spoon. Students got not only scientific information but they also develop reflection, observation skills.

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