08 June 2024

Activity based Science teaching

For the past few days, there has been some rain here in Chennai. This has paved the way for mosquitoes and small insects to get inside the residences. 

Some times, even effective mosquito repellents seem to be ineffective. Hence many people use instance sticks to repel mosquitoes and small insects. I had to use an insence stick as well as shown in the following photo:


As any brilliant science teacher would know, such photoes are of immense use in teaching middle school science concepts. Above photo (or a short video) of the burning insence stick can be used to teach an important school science concept: Hot air rises up. It can also be used to teach concepts such as kinetic theory of matter.

I wish that our teachers use such photoes and videos in their classrooms, if they cannot do live demos for any reason.


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I am a retired K-12 Education Management Professional. I have worked at different levels in K-12 school systems, textbook publishing, elearning and Education NGOs. I have held memberships in The Association for Science Education (UK), American Association of Physics Teachers and The Malaysian Institute of Physics. I hold a 1st class B Sc Degree in Physics followed by B Ed [English and Physical Science] and M A [Childcare and Education] degrees. My published works include 59 articles in teacher development magazines in India and the US and a book entitled `Creative Classrooms and Child Friendly Schools' (listed in Amazon). This book is almost an anecdotal account of my professional experience in six countries (including Cambodia where I worked as Technical Adviser to the Ministry of Education, Youth And Sports). I served as mentor in the Certificate of Teaching Mastery Program offered by Teachers Without Borders.