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How to make school physics living and interesting for pupils? One way of doing it is to use their everyday life experience and well-known natural and man-made objects. The most common things – a boat, a tree or a snowball – could help make physics visible and natural to children. How about a lesson outside a classroom, on a stadium or in a forest, on a field or by a river, with games and competitions? What a great opportunity to encourage pupils by showing them that physics can not only explain but predict and control what occurs!
Follow us and find out how to make the laws of physics visible everywhere in the out-door environment. On our site there is a list of very ordinary natural and man-made objects that we consider to be subjects for pupils’ scientific studies. There are various tasks and problems attached to each object to provide pupils’ mental and practical activities as well.
"Outdoors physics" is a bank of physics and didactical ideas that we hope not only will help to encourage pupils to learn physics but also to become a starting point for an inventory of the out-door environment as an resource for teaching physics.
You are invited to participate in the project. Send email to: oleg.popov@educ.umu.se