THE USE OF SIMPLE EXPERIMENTS IN TEACHING PHYSICS TO THE CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

Abstract

This paper deals with inclusive teaching to the children with problems in intellectual development and sand-blind children. In the Republic of Serbia children with special needs are included in regular classrooms in the Primary schools and that is called inclusive teaching. Inclusive teaching strategies are of great importance in order to help children with special needs to attend classes with the children of the same age. Their difficulties in the learning process require special developed curriculum custom to them. In teaching physics the use of simple experiments could be of great help. While conducting simple “Hands-on” experiments, children become active participants in teaching process and also it helps their socialization with their classmates. It is very important to choose adequate simple experiments so child can be included in its conduction, despite of his or her problem. It is necessary to create a friendly atmosphere in the classroom. When sand-blinded child is included in conducting simple experiments, his or her classmates must sometimes describe phenomena and compensate their friend’s inability of observation. Usually classmates will not be able to help their friend with problems in intellectual development to understand how experiment should be conducted. In this case, the teacher will have to provide additional assistance in conducting the experiment and also in the process of drawing conclusions. Teacher must be careful in creating groups for conducting experiments, so regular students will accept their classmates with special needs. In this paper, a suggestion of some adequate simple experiments for teaching physics to the children with special needs is given. Experiments in the fields of motion, pressure, density, heat, electromagnetism and sound are proposed.

Keywords

• physics,simple experiments,special need children

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