What you need: Devices: You need a webcamera or just a mobile device to record the experiment Web 2.0: Youtube, find proper music with CC licensed (go to http://creativecommons.org/legalmusicforvideos), Glogster to create a poster See the experiment here: http://incepator.edu.glogster.com/special-pentru-voi More activities here http://fizicacosbuc.pbworks.com/w/page/5804536/Clasa%20virtuala%20de%20FIZICA
Rainbow Milk
Magic but real experiments! A Romanian project for Physics The activity for pupils age 12-18 Red, blue and yellow are called the primary colors. Just by mixing these colors, you can get all the colors of the rainbow: RED + YELLOW = ORANGE; RED + BLUE = PURPLE; BLUE + YELLOW = GREEN What you Full Article…
Legobots
Here’s a a great lesson for the more confident amongst us courtesy of our Italian partners. Ages 11+ Overview: Learners build small robots with pieces of LegoNext allowing them to understand the basic principles of programming and mechanics. Strict logic is used to plan a machine that will then be available and used by children through Full Article…
Sketchometry
This is a brilliant new tool by the Maths’ department of the University of Bayreuth. It enables users to create geometrical forms using gestures. If you have a tablet, you can use your fingers to create perfect circles, parallels, tangents etc. Check out these videos and their website. It’s free.
Let’s go into the city
Lesson plan from Italy on Transport… During the morning students will have to carry out the following activities and/or purchases: A newspaper (news stand), A piece of pizza/snack (pizzeria), Exercise book (stationery store), A pair of socks (underwear), A map of the city (tourist office), Leaflet for trip (travel agency), Train schedule for trip (train Full Article…
Small scale construction
Lesson ideas for Technology from Italy… Students use CAD or similar to design a simple building Students work in groups of 4/5 people with LEGO blocks to make small scale models of simple buildings. The geometric shapes are analysed and designed. Then the students study the proportions in relation to real sizes. The students then Full Article…