Physics Teachers' Inventions Fair proceedings

Fair 15, Praha 2010

• Hajdusianek A.: Electrostatics for Children, Fair 15, Praha 2010
  A description of six simple experiments from electrostatics adequate for young children conducted by very simple devices.
• Hubeňák J.: Technical sprays in physics education, Fair 15, Praha 2010
  Sprays can be used to liven up elementary or high school physics lesson. Electronic technical sprays are easily obtainable and include some types interesting for physics: cooling sprays and sprays for dusting off. Criminologists-technicians use, among other, sprays with magnetic particles. These sprays can be also obtained and used for experimentation.
• Chiaverina C.: Exploring Sound and Light, Fair 15, Praha 2010
  This contribution describes five simple experiments which are based on the persistence of vision. Next, a simple phonograph pickup made from a needle and paper, sound transmission via light and other experiments are decsribed.
• Chiaverina C.: People Demos: Kinesthetic Physics Activities, Fair 15, Praha 2010
  A description of demonstrations carried out by the students’ body movements to demonstrate the principle of wave motion, circuit connection, interference etc.
• Polák Z.: Experiments with infrared radiation – suggestions, Fair 15, Praha 2010
  This contribution is meant for teachers who are looking for ideas for student individual research work. It shows that simple or easily available tools can help one to study the properties of objects that we cannot perceive by senses.
• Raczkowska-Tomczak K., Trzebuniak A.: Similar but different, Fair 15, Praha 2010
  This article describes twelve simple experiments in which two same or similar things show different behaviour. The description also includes the reasoning of the difference. The experiments involve electrostatics, optics, surface tension, the Archimedes Law etc.
• Šabatka Z.: Experiments on the Basics of Electrostatics (Coulomb’s law; Capacitor), Fair 15, Praha 2010
  Most of teachers open the chapter of electricity and magnetism with the topic of electrostatics. This contribution deals with two basics concepts of this topic - capacitor and the Coulomb’s law – and gives suggestions for some experiments.