School on experiments in physics

Mapping nature on, in and around the school

Mirjana Božić*, Slavica Nikolić, M. Arch.** and Dejan Pantelić* 

*Institute of Physics, Pregrevica 118, Zemun,

11000 Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro

**Ronnette Riley Architect, Empire State Building,

350 Fifth Avenue #8001, New York, NY 10118; USA

Shapes in nature, geometry and architecture

School architecture

Entangling school archtecture and education

- Transparent dome with a movable black sheet to observe and record the daily and annual path of the Sun

- Well and column in two distant schools along the meridian to measure the radius of the Earth using Erathosten’s method

- The Sun as a source of light for school optics education - Newton’s prisms built on roofs and in windows - Sheets to demonstrate the polarization of light built on roofs and in windows- Grid of wholes on the ceiling or in the external wall coupled with a container with liquid to demonstrate the refraction of light - RBG filters to mix Sun light

- Crystal structures in the school building- The staircase fence for the Galileo's experiments on a straight inclined track

Lepenski Vir

R. Szostak, Simple hands-on experiments for teaching astronomy, Hands on-Experiments in Physics Education, Proc. ICPE-GIREP International Conference, Duisburg, Germany, 1988, ed. by G. Born, H. Harreis, H. Litschke, N. Treitz (Didaktik der Physik, Duisburg, 1999).