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– to develop skills in getting and applying knowledge independently, to
work in
a group, to debate, to defend their points of view.
Main activities:
– independent research;
– pupils’ oral communications with the following discussion;
– preparation and defense of presentations;
– conducting laboratory and practical works;
– work with reference books, encyclopedias, informational sources;
Pupils choose by themselves:
– research topic;
– a kind of term paper;
– literature with the help of which they will prepare their own work.
Distinctive features of the program:
The program promotes formation of pupils’ cognitive interest to physics,
development of creative abilities, deepening and developing knowledge and skills as:
– research tasks included in the program admit different levels of realization and
have a clear and interesting direction which
encourages pupils to study;
– tasks do not require expensive or complex equipment as it is usually in natural
and scientific classrooms or can be made of the available tools;
– sequence of tasks submits to certain logic based mainly on gradual
complication of research activities from task to task and taking into account the
content of natural and scientific course and mathematics program;
– studies on implementation of research tasks include such forms of
communicative activities as a group work, participation in the discussion,
presentation of the results.
The organization of educational activity can be different. For example, it will
be more convenient for pupils to work on some tasks individually or in pairs and
presentation of the results (conference) in public can be replaced by group
report
directly in front of the teacher. One of the most efficient forms of organization of
research activity is the work of pupils in pairs or more using role-playing technique
where pupils can complement each other playing this or that role: theorist, practician,
physicist, biologist, etc. In this case the quality of work, level of training and
productivity highly increases as pupils constantly discuss their topic, give an advice
and argue with each other, mutually check the learned material, use errors and gaps.
As the program consists of only research tasks then there is almost no lecture at all.
Informational and instructive part can be considered as its analogue just to some
extent where the teacher presents necessary information on the studied phenomenon
in concise form. The teacher also forms the task with pupils and provides information
and reference which will be useful for them while working on it.
As a result of studying the course, in addition to the formation of their own
position pupils will be able to master (at some level) the following skills:
– to
make up a research plan;
– to fix empirical data (taking errors into account) in the form of schedule and
table;
– to describe the mechanism of the phenomenon drawing on its working model;
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– to propose and do experiments and observations allowing to reveal new
features of the phenomena, to check and correct working model;
– to collaborate with friends while working in the research group;
– to present the results of work in the form of a short report
using visual aids
(diagrams, schedules, drawings).
3) Educational course schedule
№
Theme
Academic
hours
Among them
Theory
Practice
1
Aims and objectives of pupils’
research activity
1
1
2
Physical experiment as a part of
scientific knowledge of nature and
its role in the development of
science.
1
0.75
0.25
Test
1
0.25
0.75
3
Observation of physical
phenomena. Observing technique
2
1
1
4
Hypothesis. The role and place of
scientific hypotheses in the
formation of scientific theory.
1
0.75
0.25
5
Model
building in the learning
process
1
1
6
Fundamental physical experiments.
2
1
1
Physical practicum.
5
5
7
Interesting experiments on Physics.
2
2
8
Pre-project and project activities of
pupils.
6
1
5
9
Independent research on
the topic
“Physics and Astronautics”
development".
9
1
8
10
Report and discussion of research
results
1
1
Additional time
1
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11
Physics: the way of search and
discovery
1
1
12
Independent research on the topic
"Physics around us"
9
1
8
13
Report and discussion of research
results
1
1
14
Independent research on the topic
"Physics and technique"
9
1
8
15
Report and discussion of research
results
1
2
16
Defense of project work
2
2
17
Inventor: a profession or a
vocation?
1
1
18
Methods of technical creativity
2
2
19
Regularities of technological
systems and application of physical
effects
1
1
20
The Laws of Physics and the Laws
of technology
1
1
21
Make and investigate by yourself
2
2
22
Defense of project work
2
2
Additional time
3
Total
68
Program content
The first-year education
Lesson №1. Aims and objectives of pupils’ research activity
Lesson №2. Physical experiment and its role in the development of science
Lesson №3 Laboratory research “Checking rules of moment on the lever”.
Lesson №4. Observation of physical phenomena.
Lesson №5 Implementation of independent observations in groups.
Lesson №6. Hypothesis, its role and place in learning process.
Lesson №7. Model building in learning process.
Lessons №10-14. Practical manual on Physics.
