Open AccessBoat in the pool – lab work
Author(s) -
Irena Dvořáková
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1286/1/012030
Subject(s) - work (physics) , measure (data warehouse) , computer science , mathematics education , element (criminal law) , mathematics , engineering , mechanical engineering , data mining , law , political science
This article describes a non-traditional lab focused on applying Archimedes’ principle in a situation that is, for students, new and unusual. Two main interconnected features of this lab are important. Firstly, it is not a “standard” lab experiment in which students are instructed to measure something and then to interpret results. Here, a very important element is prediction. Students have to predict the result first, calculate it using Archimedes’ principle, and only then do the measurement. Secondly, it is not the teacher who tells students whether their calculation is right or wrong, it is the experiment itself. This article presents the lab work itself (instructions and results), some methodological comments, and my experience in school.