SLIDE 1
FLUID DYNAMICS KNOWLEDGE COMPARISON OF STUDENTS WITH DIFFERENT EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Csilla Fülöp, Madách Imre Gimnázium, Budapest Zsuzsa Sárközi, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca Alpár Vörös, Liceul Teoretic Apáczai, Cluj-Napoca
SLIDE 2 STEM in crisis
2015, Obama:
“(Science) is more than a school subject, (...). It is an approach to the world, a critical way to understand and explore and engage in the world, and then have the capacity to change that world.”
The Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2015
“STEM in crisis or STEM surplus? Yes and yes.” We learn from the study about employment: the academic sector is generally oversupplied, while the government sector and private industry have shortages
SLIDE 3 Fluid (dynamic)s in secondary curricula
Romania:
- no phenomena or concepts are listed
Hungary:
- present from 2018
- 8 lessons total, other simple concepts are set in this topic
L1 pressure L2 hydrostatic p, Pascal’s law L3 Archimedes law L4 aerostatic pressure L5 surface tension, viscosity L6 continuity, Bernoulli’s law L7 drag, revision L8 test or evaluation
SLIDE 4 Introducing STEAM
A for Art, Skills and Creativity history, music, ballet, fine art, literature,
nursery rhymes, jokes, song, etc
Prof H. Salmi, Helsinki 2018
How creativity, autonomy and visual reasoning contribute to cognitive learning in a STEAM hands-on inquiry-based math module
Prof P
. C. S. Taylor, Australia 2017 Enriching STEM with the arts to better prepare 21st century citizens
MIG projects: Artpieces of gravity,
Retiring the Grand Kilo
SLIDE 5 Room escape games
popular free-time activities effective tools in team building focus on co-operation and engagement in the activity use flow (Csíkszentmihályi) activate the amygdala („emotional brain”) 2011 Moether: effective tools of methodology Story:12% scientific, 30% scientific elements 8% for teaching purposes „in-situ” tasks and hands-on, minds-on experiments
SLIDE 6
Introducing the groups
Budapest, Hungary Madách Imre Gimnázium Cluj Napoca, Romania Liceul Teoretic Apáczai Grade 9, 24 pupils Mixed interest Grade 9, 27 pupils Mixed interest Grade 11, 22 pupils Special interest on physics or chemistry Grade 11, 27 pupils Special interest on science Grade 11, 13 pupils Special interest on history Grade 11, 21 pupils Special interest on arts
SLIDE 7
Our room escape game on fluids
Greek story: need to cross rivers to reach the goal step title task 1 Who was Daniel? crossword, net for info, on everyday pnenomena on pressure 2 The submarine the Cartesian diver, cultural history, info from net 3 Vortices by NASA and in the Lab using the net info on Kármán, making estimates (direct prop.) 4 Heron fountain hands-on task, simple math
SLIDE 8 Implementing „Quizizz”
The advantages of online testing:
- you give a link and a code of 6 digits
- anywhere,
- any time,
- motivating for young adults,
- quick results and statistics for the teacher
3 aspects of competence
- (recalling or) recognizing information
- scientific thinking
- attitude
SLIDE 9
Recalling information (%)
No Q 9A 9M 11Aa 11Ma 11As 11Ms A M 6 93 63 78 50 86 54 86 56 7 63 46 59 45 86 85 69 59 9 52 50 56 82 100 77 69 70 10 70 77 78 77 95 92 81 82 12 52 58 67 59 100 100 73 72 66 59 68 63 93 82 76 68
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Scientific thinking (%)
No Q 9A 9M 11Aa 11Ma 11As 11Ms A M 1 52 50 48 55 71 92 57 66 2 44 42 52 59 57 54 51 52 3 70 58 37 45 57 77 55 60 4 56 45 56 50 76 92 63 62 5 56 50 52 59 71 69 60 59 8 56 58 63 45 86 85 68 63 56 51 51 52 70 78 59 60
SLIDE 11 Evaluating Q11 (p/%)
Which phenomena are related to Kármán vortices?
- hydrosatic press
- aerodynamics of vehicles
- Tacoma bridge collapse
- flying of flags
Each good answer is 1 point, each bad is -1point for the group
No Q 9A 9M 11Aa 11Ma 11As 11Ms A M 11 11/ 41 12/ 50 13/ 48 11/ 50 39/ 186 19/ 146 92 82
SLIDE 12
Students’ opinion on the activity
G9 G11 art G11 sci Ave. Apáczai, Ro 4.41 4.18 4.73 4.41 Madách, H 3.92 3.86 4.23 3.97 4.18 4.04 4.53 4.22
SLIDE 13 From the unstructured feedback…
As teachers we kept in touch with the pupils. Some ideas from what they shared:
- Shortage of time
- To open safe first in my life
- Loose connection between task and code
- More teams sqeezed into the room, not enough space
- The very spot of the game
- A possibility to fidget around the laboratory
SLIDE 14 Our teenagers….
- Without useing the net there was no chance to escape
- A pressure to use the internet ( teenagers)
- The diver experiment
- A crossword on physics – mind-blowing, really!
- The moderator was helping and kind
- The moderator seemed too bright and frightening
Next time we need to study deeper e.g. with unstructured interviews
SLIDE 15
Thank you for your attention
Please, feel free to comment or ask….
This study was funded by the Content Pedagogy Research Program of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
