The Macedonian educational system is under continuous reforms and changes made to the syllabuses and methods of teaching. In the last two decades, almost every aspect of teaching mathematics and physics in primary school has been changed. The last three major changes cover different approaches: coordinated teaching in 2008, curriculum changes towards research methods and problem solving in...
In the present work, we investigate the possibility to improve the students' understanding of the spectral properties of different light sources and the transmission/absorption of different media by means of a partially computer-based school experiment in physics. Numerous studies have identified certain difficulties in understanding and applying atomic models [1,2], and more specifically,...
Students are learning and using graphs in compulsory education in Republic of Serbia within physics and mathematics. Nevertheless, students have difficulties in using kinematics graphs and their misinterpretation is often [1]. Students’ difficulties with graphs in physics are not necessary caused with the unsatisfying level of knowledge of graphs in mathematics [2]. Integration of physics is...
Inflow of young learned community into the field of pure physics research has been declined throughout the world including Romania. The initial attitude and the understanding of the nature of scientific endeavors and the people associated with them have a great role in determining the choice of engineering as career. How children perceive the engineers can indicate how they perceive the nature...
Electromagnetism is considered one of the most complex topics of physics. Students face significant difficulties trying to get familiar with magnetic and electric phenomena. If the laws of electricity and magnetism and their theories are unclear to students, these phenomena become even more challenging to understand. In these situations, students usually start memorizing concepts without...
The paper starts with a brief discussion of research studies investigating students’ misconceptions related to physics concepts, ideas and laws1. Then, we discuss the rich information on undergraduate students’ understanding when research focuses on investigating students’ reasoning in various areas of physics2, 3. The main body of the paper reports on recent research on undergaduate physics...
The electromagnetic field behavior is described by the set of Maxwell equations relating the electric and magnetic fields, charge density and current density. The electric and magnetic fields E and B can be written in terms of scalar and vector potentials.
Faraday’s law of induction is fundamental to understanding how electric and magnetic fields interact. Time-varying magnetic field give...
"Tell me and I will forget; show me and I will remember; include me and I will understand."
This report presents lessons conducted in regular Sience, Physics, and Astronomy classes related to a content area of expertise related to natural sunlight. Interdisciplinarity is presented through STEAM - based learning approaches and methods: exploratory approach, experiential learning, learning by...
Abstract. Electric circuits are an important element of physics class. However, many students leave secondary school without having an adequate conceptual understanding of simple circuits. Voltage in particular is a difficult concept since students understand voltage as a property of the electric current. Gymnasium students in Montenegro did test which contained problems of understanding...
Founded in 1985, the Balkan Physical Union (BPU) strives to actively promote Physics, science, education, and cooperation between the Balkan countries. In accordance with these aims, as well as the goals of the Balkan Physics Olympiad, the BPU Council which was held in Sofia, in 2018, agreed that it should organize the First Balkan Physics Olympiad, which would function as a platform where the...
The field of Nanoscience and Engineering (NSE) is a modern and dominant field of research that is developing rapidly, already offering useful products and applications. Nanoscience is the scientific branch that concerns the research of interactions at the nanoscale (1-100nm) while nanotechnology deals with the management and reconstruction of matter at the nanoscale. The development of NSE...
Technology has the potential to dramatically improve our everyday life aspects, including the time we spend in the educational environments. If we want to add the teaching means and methods, then one of the solutions would be to include the smartphones in it.
The purpose of this paperwork is their use as an experimental tool to aid the students who study physics in a way that their concepts...
The term climate change refers to the change in the global climate and to changes in meteorological conditions that extend over a large scale of time. Such changes include statistically significant fluctuations in the average state of the climate or its variability, extending over a period of decades or even more years. Climate change is due to natural processes, as well as human activities...
Nature has developed materials, objects and procedures that occur in the macro-scale as well as the nanoscale. The results of millions of years of biological evolution and the optimized “techniques” developed by the organisms are available to scientists who seek new ideas by studying the solutions provided by nature. The scientific field that allows man to imitate nature and to develop...
Often in physics classes we are faced with the need for demonstration attempts. Some physics classes can be well organized using certain educational content from the numerical assignments and experimental assignments given at the International Physics Olympiads. As mentors of students and participants in the Olympics, we want to share some experiences from using texts, draft schemes or whole...
Over the last 20 years more inventions have emerged from NanoScience and Engineering (NSE) than any other scientific field (1). By 2030, its implications in regards to science, technology innovation, economy and society are expected to overcome even the ones from the digital revolution. Scientific research and development of technological applications in the nanoscale has provided every field...
Μost physics professors would agree that laboratory experience is an important part of science education. Learning through experiments encourages students to bring scientific thinking to the processes of a strong, innovative, and logical path between concepts and phenomena. Virtual labs through computer simulation-based methods of studying physics happened to be one of the most powerful...
An Individualized Education Plan (IEP) is a specific document, which provides the opportunity for the pupils with development disorders, disabilities, and children from the sensitive groups, regardless of their material status, to have the access to all levels of education1. Preparation and implementation of IEPs in physics teaching for elementary schools are done on the basis of a unique...
A number of students, as their field of interest, prefer social sciences to science. History of science can be the bridge between science and social sciences.[1],[2] Therefore, it can be a useful tool for getting students with an affinity for social sciences interested in physics and vice versa, it can get students with an affinity for physics interested in social sciences. History of physics...
Distance teaching in an electronic environment involves the application of different pedagogical approaches and methods than those used in traditional face-to-face teaching and interaction with students. At the same time, unequal opportunities for students to learn fully from a distance in an electronic environment and the lack of adequate adaptation of the distance learning process to their...
Introduction: According to the results from several studies [for example 1,2] high-energy positive solar particles fluxes, invading Earth are correlated with mortality from ischemic heart diseases, Ischemic heart diseases, according World Health Organization (WHO) statistics [3], are the first in the list of the 10 most frequent causes of death in 2016, regardless of the state's economic...
In this paper we present the three cases of innovative pedagogy; the teaching of physics was conceptualized and designed in a such way to bring outcomes in order to serve the society.
The first one exploits the backwards pedagogy where physics was thought to non-physics students; the students were future teachers of primary school. By prototyping the microgenerators we promote harvesting...
The world consists of millions of different living organisms. Through their huge diversity in terms of characteristics they have managed to live in all the possible extreme conditions in the planet that we live in. Every organism had millions of years to adapt to its environment and the results of this continuous evolution are there to be studied in order to benefit human lives through the...
Since the very beginning, Regional Center for Talents “Mihajlo Pupin” in Pančevo had a physics group. Over time, the number of classes has grown, but so did the number of students and mentors. Consequently, the achievements on national and even international competitions in physics were growing steadily. After first few years spent in experimenting different possibilities in the field of work...
