High School Physics Department: The Fun in Teaching, the Fun in Learning - Experiments on Thermal Energy-Shanghai High School International Division

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High School Physics Department: The Fun in Teaching, the Fun in Learning - Experiments on Thermal Energy

October 8, 2022

As a rigorous natural subject, physics is sometimes thought to be boring, uninteresting, and even difficult to understand. Or is it? Why not come to a physics class and see how teachers make seemingly obscure knowledge points both interesting and easy to understand?

In late September, Grade 10 students have been learning about thermal energy. In order to visualize the abstract and invisible concepts as well as the physical quantities, physics teachers organized and implemented a series of interesting experiments so that students could deepen their understanding of knowledge in play.

Ice cream making, teabag rockets, smoke cascades, spinning paper snakes, spinning lights, bags that don't burn... Under the safe guidance of the teachers, the students began the experiments in full swing in groups. From time to time in the laboratory came the exclamation of students as they excitedly recorded these "magical" experimental phenomena and hotly discussed the thermodynamic principles behind them.

It is the daily practice of every physics teacher to make the classroom lively. Similar physics experiments can fully mobilize the enthusiasm of students so that students have a strong interest in physics and experience the fun and sense of accomplishment of learning physics.

(Written by Yan Wang Pictures by Yuwen Dai, Xiaoxue Liu)