Presentation from the 2nd Scientix Conference, 24-26 October 2014, Brussels, Belgium

1. CREATIVITY IN TEACHING
SCIENCE
Project-based learning
Sanja Bulat, Ivana Jokić

2. CLASS PROJECT “HELLO NEWTON”
 Carried out during the first semester of the
2013/2014 school year
 Twenty 7th grade students, Physics teacher and
EFL teacher participated in the project
 Theme:
 Isaac Newton – life and work
 Newton’s Laws of Motion
 Newton’s Law of Gravity
o The topic was discussed both in Physics and EFL
classes.

3. PHYSICS CLASSES
 1st Physics class – “Life and Work of Isaac Newton”
 “Flipped Classroom” – prior to the class, students had
to go through materials the teacher had posted on the
internet
 “Mind Maps” – during the class, students worked in
groups (optics, biography, motion, gravity) and
presented acquired knowledge by means of mind
maps.

4. PHYSICS CLASSES
 2nd Physics class – “ The Second Law of Motion”
 Students revised The First Law of Motion by
watching videos
 Students watched videos and PhET simulations
showing the dependence of acceleration on force
and mass.
 Students drew their own conclusions about the type
of dependence between force and acceleration as
well as between mass and acceleration.

5. PHYSICS CLASS
 3rd Physics class – “Laws of Motion”
 “Rotating model” – students circulated around the
room changing places at several spots where they
performed simple experiments to demonstrate all
three laws of motion.

6. EFL CLASSES
 1st EFL class – “Getting to Know Newton”
 Warm up class –
• watched a short film about Isaac Newton (life
and work)
• talked about the film – discussed his life and
achievements
• learned vocabulary specific for a particular
scientific field

7. EFL CLASSES
 2nd EFL class – “Newton Through My Eyes”
 Prior to the class – students were divided into 5
groups:
• Newton’s Life and Work
• The First Law of Motion
• The Second of Motion
• The Third Law of Motion
• The Law of Gravity

8. EFL CLASSES
 Students were assigned tasks – to explore and
present the given topics the way they chose
 In the class – students presented their work
• one PPT presentation
• two posters
• one demonstration and explanation
• one short role-play

9. “NEWTON RULES”
 Extracurricular classes were used for preparation
and rehearsing of the play “Newton Rules”
 The play showed, in a slightly humorous way, our
view of how Newton had come to his laws
 The play was multimedia – students’ acting took
turns with the display of streamed videos
 The play was in both Serbian and English
 The play was performed at the Festival of Science
in December 2013

10. REFLECTION AND EVALUATION
 Implementation of PBL into our work
• increased students’ motivation
• related subject’s contents to real life
• led to more durable knowledge
• led to team and cooperative work
• led to peer teaching and learning
• provided application of modern teaching
methods
• correlation of subjects and subject matters

11. REFLECTION AND EVALUATION
 Students were given the opportunity to develop
certain skills:
• Creativity
• Planning
• Critical Thinking and Decision Making
• Communication and Collaboration
• Information and ICT Literacy
• Flexibility and Adaptability
• Initiative
• Responsibility

12. NEW PROJECT
“Hello Physics”
4 years
“From Bell to Android”

13. PHYSICS CLASSES

14. PHYSICS CLASSES

15. PHYSICS CLASSES

16. PHYSICS CLASSES

17. EFL CLASSES

18. “NEWTON RULES”

19. “NEWTON RULES”

20. CREATIVITY IN TEACHING SCIENCE
Thank you for your attention

21. APPARATUS FOR THE EXPERIMENTS

22. APPARATUS FOR THE EXPERIMENTS