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Friday, February 23 • 09:00 - 10:00
From Concept To Demonstration To Experiment To Understanding

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Teachers can illustrate many concepts in science with classroom demonstrations. Students and teachers enjoy these demos, but how can teachers insure that students will get more than entertainment out of them?

In planning for a demonstration, teachers evaluate what makes a good one. Does it support the curriculum? Does it foster understanding of a science topic? Can we afford to do it? In addition, teachers plan student activities around the demonstration. What can students do to use the demonstration to develop an intuition for the concept and to remember it later during an exam?

In this session, I will show several physics demonstrations. I will discuss strengths and weaknesses of the demonstrations as well as strategies for getting students to develop a true understanding of the science that underlies them.

The demonstrations are low cost and have direct curricular links to topics in junior high and high school science courses and Physics 20 and 30. The discussions around the demonstrations are applicable to the other sciences as well.
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Barry Edgar

Physics
Barry taught for Edmonton Public Schools for 40 years before retiring at the end of the 2013 school year (14 years in junior high math and science, and 26 years in high school general science and physics).He believes that students get most out of a classroom that is activity based... Read More →

Friday February 23, 2018 09:00 - 10:00 MST
B371
  Science, Gr 7-9, Gr 10-12