In the changing Czech educational system, educational standards were elaborated for school leavers at the end of secondary education. This article reports about the preparation and goals of the educational standards in physics. […]
The pervasive notion of Time is an integrated part of our understanding of ‘reality’. Many fascinating mysteries related to time are still unresolved. The topic entangles notions belonging to different fields, from Religion to Technology: i.e. Astronomy, Physics, Biology, Psychology, Art, […]
Peculiarities and problems of deaf high school students are outlined, related to the obstacles they meet in learning Physics, namely the difficulty in abstracting, generalizing, and using rules with flexibility. In particular, the typical misunderstandings due to deaf natural language are pointed out, […]
As we realized after a detailed monitoring that students can easily get lost in solving problems of physics, this article propose a new didactic tecnique .nearer to the researcher work whose purpose is to stimulate students to sustain their interest in physics, […]
Dealing with a new physical subject one often goes on too hastily in the initial stage, leaving some uncertainties and ambiguities in definitions and in basic features. Furthermore one performs schematizations and simplifications which may be in contradiction with fundamental principles or experimental results. […]
A ‘physically consistent’ way of explaining tides to secondary school pupils is suggested and described. […]
The concept of mean is one of those proposed to students mainly relying on intuition. This paper, which is addressed to teachers, has strictly didactic aimsand, although making progressive generalisations, gives examples from the basics of physics. […]
Synchronizing distant clocks at rest in the same reference frame is far from a trivial issue. A review is presented of the several problems involved and of the practical approaches adopted in the course of time. The conventionalist view is discussed, […]
The conditions why objects rolling down different inclined tracks cover different distances in equal interval of time are studied. We want to demonstrate that the time taken by a ball to cover a chord of a circumference because of gravity, does not depend on the length of the chord itself. […]
The multimedial software “Inside the Atom” introduces atomic structure through an historical perspective. A test was carried out with fourth year students of a scientific highschool aimed at: (1) finding what difference in learning was achieved by using the software, with respect to traditional practice; […]