31 December 2024

Traditional Japanese Festival

This afternoon NHK World TV Channel telecast an interesting documentary on their Matsuri festival. Balancing of long poles is an integral part in this festival as you can see in this video.

Such documentaries remind me of a few games that I used as teaching aids in my physics lessons to students. One such was letting students balance a one metre long wooden ruler horizontally and vertically on their finger. My students in different countries seemed to love the activity. This was part of my attempt to teach 'Equilibrium' in middle school physics.

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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.