Fysikdemonstrationer för effektivt lärande Underhållning eller undervisning?

Abstract

The education of teachers in Sweden often suggest that demonstrations should be a part of the physics subject in order to catch the students’ interest. We sought to find out if there were any effective ways of making demonstrations part of an effective learning experience. After finding studies of a method called "predict, observe and explain", we chose to dig deeper into this particular method and investigate it thoroughly. What we later found was support for this method to be effective. With this evidence, we chose to tie it together with what we have learned so far in our teacher education, and also tied it to what the regulatory documents for the physics courses say. Our findings were that the method we learned about goes very well with what we have learned previously but is never talked about explicitly. Thus, we as teachers are lacking the information required to make demonstrations satisfactory for both teacher and students.