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

Year 2015, Volume: 2 , 1 - 4, 30.04.2015

Dušanka ž. Obadović Bojan Lazarević İvana Bogdanović Mirjana Ilić

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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