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Title of the Experience
Assigning students classroom jobs
Name of the teacher
L.A
Country where it took place
Romania
School typology
Vocational School
Thematic Area
Science
Experience typology
Teaching in class
Type of contact
Direct
Description of the Experience
Assigning students classroom jobs is a great way to build a community and to give students a sense of motivation. Most students will see classroom jobs as a privilege rather than a burden and will work hard to ensure that they are meeting your expectations. It can also be useful to allow students to take turns leading activities/ experiments.
Energy is constantly changing forms and transferring between objects. Use two balls to transfer kinetic energy from the big ball to the smaller one and see what happens. What you need is: a large, heavy ball such as a basketball or soccer ball; a smaller, light ball such as a tennis ball or inflatable rubber ball. Ask students to put the tennis ball on top of the basketball, holding one hand under the basketball and the other on top of the tennis ball. Then let go of both the balls at exactly the same time and observe what happens. If you dropped the balls at the same time, the tennis ball should bounce off the basketball and fly high into the air. The two balls hit each other just after they hit the ground, a lot of the kinetic energy in the larger basketball is transferred through to the smaller tennis ball, sending it high into the air.
While you held the balls in the air before dropping them they had another type of energy called 'potential energy', the balls gained this through the effort it took you to lift the balls up, it is interesting to note that energy is never lost, only transferred into other kinds of energy.

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