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PROJECT WORK AT OUR SCHOOL

Application of Physics in Intersubject Relations

Dana Jančinová

PHYSICS ON STAGE 3

2 0 0 3

1. súkromné gymnázium, Bajkalská 20, Bratislava, SLOVAKIA


1. súkromné gymnázium, Bratislava, SLOVAKIA http://www.1sg.sk

BRATISLAVA

OUR SCHOOL

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- we started project education 11 years ago

- we were inspired by Susan Kovalik

- we adapted this method for a higher academic level

- we have had an exceptionally positive experience


PROJECT WORK AT OUR SCHOOL has been an important method of student work for eleven years. We were inspired by a group of American teachers around Mrs. Susan Kovalik who visited our school in 1992. We adopted the idea of the project work but we adapted it to the needs of our students, and to our academic requirements and we also took into account our cultural background. Our experience with this form of teaching is very positive as it develops wide range of students’ abilities and skills.




COMMUNICATION SKILLS

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

WORKING WITH MODERN

TECHNOLOGIESCREATIVE AND CRITICAL APROACHES IN SOLVING

PROBLEMS

KEY COMPETENCIES



teamworkindividual work pace

variety of information sources

development of creativity in problem solving tasks

motivation to study (choice of the theme)

bridging between real

life and educationperformance

improving self-confidence (student is an „expert“ in his theme)

Support of self-reflection (response of the audience)

THE THEME CHOICE depends on:

• the on age and personality of the students

• the curriculum of that particular year and subject

THE MAIN THEME of the project was chosen after reading an article „Federalists and the others...“ by the whole class (25 students)



• first example of the main theme and subthemes

• integration of the subjects

MAIN THEME

INTEGRATION OR RESCUE

DEMOCRITUS DID NOT SUSPECT

physics, biology, chemistry

HEALTH CARE AND EUchemistry, biology, civics, math

COSMIC PROGRAMphysics, computer sciences

FUTURE OF THE EUcivics, physics, math,

chemistry




MAIN THEME

INTEGRATION OR RESCUE


FUTURE OF THE EUcivics, physics, math,

chemistry

- problems of the integration of three groups of states (civics)

a) Norway, Switzerland

b) Russia, Ukraine, Turkey

c) Great Britain, Sweden, Denmark

- nuclear energy (physics)

- exponential and logarithmic functions (math)

- oil production (chemistry)



MAIN THEME IDEAS vs

IDEOLOGIES

HISTORY, BIOLOGY, GERMAN LANGUAGE

Man vs Church

CommunismHISTORY, GEOGRAPHY

Darwinism vs Creationism

CHEMISTRY, BIOLOGY, PHYSICS

ComputersCOMPUTER SCIENCES,

PHYSICS, MATH, CHEMISTRY

ColumbusHISTORY, GEOGRAPHY,

PHYSICS

• another example of the main theme and subthemes

• integration of the subjects

TIMETABLE OF PROJECT WORK

3.9. first consultations

26.9. second consultations

18.10. written form of projects delivered

23.-24.10. preparation of presentation

25.-30.10. presentation of the project




3.9. first consultations

26.9. second consultations

18.10. written form of projects delivered

23.-24.10. preparation of presentation

25.-30.10. presentation of the project

TIMETABLE OF PROJECT WORK

FORM OF THE OUTPUT

written (formal standard with summary in English and

German language)

text editors

web page

presentation

use of presentation technologies

discussion


FORM OF THE OUTPUT

SUMMARY THE FUTURE OF EU

We began with characteristics pf integration and development of European Union. On the basis of these characteristics we understood why there are states, which are “outside”.There are two views on the future of the European Union in current Europe. The strong countries like Germany and France have a vision of a “Super state” similar to United States. On other side, Denmark and Great Britain don’t want to change the current situation in the European Union. We all know that Great Britain was always different from the whole Europe, it has always thought independently and we can hardly hear Britons saying the sentence: “I’m the citizen of Europe”. We were also discussing the reasons of these two directions. Later we looked on Europe in a different way and we could see three types of states, which are in some way “out”. We named their main members and we analyzed their economic and political attitude. The members of the first group are countries like Denmark and Great Britain that are in the European Union but their visions about EU were in the time of their entrance different from the ones, which prevail today. These states don’t agree with the direction to one “Super state”, because they want free confederation. In the second group, there are states, which don’t want to enter the EU, because the entrance wouldn’t bring them economic advantages and it probably won’t change in recent future. These countries are for example Switzerland and Norway. In the part titled Norway we were talking in details about oil and oil processing, which is connected with the pollution of water. As the last type of states we mentioned Russia and Turkey. These states would like to enter the union but EU doesn’t want them as real members, because they cannot complete the necessary access conditions. For Russian economy nuclear energetic is important, too. In our work we were talking about physical formula, which describes radioactivity decay of elements. This formula is from mathematic side exponential function and its inversion face – logarithmic function. We characterized the properties of these functions.

- example of the SUMMARY No.1


FORM OF THE OUTPUT

SUMMARY KOLUMBUS

In our project with simple, but appropriate title ‘’Kolumbus’’, we’re interested in the events before, after and during the multiverbal clash of two definitely different cultures: Europeans and original Americans. Especially this clash is our main theme, too.

In the beginning was mented a situation on Pyreneas peninsula, or in Spain in fiveteenth century (the age of Humanism and Renaissance), where we were writing about social and feudal relationships, national government and religious conflicts. Because especially in Spain, there was the important man – Christopher Columbus, who we introduced in his biography. This age was the time of human ideals, longings, finding out and discovaring new, unknown things. And these thoughts appear also in Columbus´s mind. You can find out why Columbus with his crew sailed out on the sea with the idea of getting to India from the west side, which means by the other side as they already had known. Then we were interested in his quest, with all of the hopes and complications, were we describe their naval navigation together with important aid instrument – compass.

After that we started with describing America and its original population, their existence, culture and the difference between separate tribes. Then we returned back to Columbus, who didn´t obviously come to India, but to new continent – America. That is the reason, why the first clash between Europeans and Indians (how Columbus named them) happened. Because of this clash the age of real hell began: violence of the Europea colonisators towards the native Indians was brutal and the results of this pressure were, and still are very sad.

- example of the SUMMARY No. 2


FORM OF THE OUTPUT

SUMMARY WHY IS THE SKY BLUE The topic of our project is “The Development Of Opinions On Space”. It includes opinions of people from the Classical Age to the Renaissance. In each country people imagined space differently. In Classical Greece, which wasn’t restricted by any religious doctrines and few govermental restrictions, science flourished. There were a lot of good astronomers. Aristrachus of Samos had an opinion, which was almost scientificaly accurate. He thought that the Earth was round and once a day it turns around its axis and once a year it goes with other planets around the Sun. But the most of the people agreed with Aristotle, who tought, that the round Earth does’t move. All space objects go around the Earth on circle shaped tracks. In the Middle Ages, the Church prevented scientific expansion. And then when Galileo Galilei as the first man in history started to observe the sky with a telescope, it was just one step from understanding the order of the universe. That was invented by Kepler. He discovered 3 rules of movement in space. He discovered that planets and moons move on eliptic tracks and that’s why we tried to explain to you this interesting geometric shape. For better understanding, we started by explaining the circle first. And now you know why the sky is blue and that a black hole is something small with huge thickness and gravitation. It absorbs light and it arose from an explosion of a star. We hope you have learnt something and enjoyed our project!!!

- example of the SUMMARY No. 3


FORM OF THE OUTPUT


written

text editors

web page

presentation


discussion

FORM OF THE OUTPUT


written

text editors (formal standard)

web page

presentation


discussion

FORM OF THE OUTPUT


written

text editors

web page

presentation


discussion

FORM OF THE OUTPUT


written

text editors

web page (htm language, tags, ...)

presentation


discussion

FORM OF THE OUTPUT

written

text editors

web page

programme

presentation


discussion


FORM OF THE OUTPUT


written

text editors

web page

programme

presentation


discussion

FORM OF THE OUTPUT


written

text editors

web page

presentation


discussion


PROJECT EVALUATION PROCESS

project preparation phase

content of the composition

formal part of the composition

balance of the content in the presentation

didactic quality of the presentation



project preparation phase• activity and individual work in seeking for information sources

• attitude to cosultations

• team work

content of the written composition• planing of the content, proportionality of individual parts

• achieving of the main aim

• integrity of the composition, thematic integration

• personal contribution to the composition



formal part of written composition

• contents, introduction, conclusion

• bibliography, quality of quotations

• picture addition

• stylistic and linguistic aspect of the composition

the level of written composition • academic level from aspects of different subjects

• linguistic level – stylistics, terms, gramatical errors



balance of the content in the presentation • good choice of key points

• thematic integration and contents overlapping

• overall academic level of the group

didactic quality of the presentation

• didactic methods, legibility, exactness of the group

• balance between contributions of group members

• reactions to questions from the audience


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