Researching the Alcoholic Fermentation in Primary School Laboratory

Year 2018, Volume: 10 , 168 - 176, 12.09.2018

Andreja Bozıc

Abstract

Research
in primary school has recently become a hot topic and is gaining a foremost
position among the educational goals and objectives in primary education. Thus
a responsible contemporary teacher of a natural science subject enables the
student to get to know research work, which means that he or she guides them –
through quality mentoring – through the methodology of writing a research
paper, which is basically the same at all levels of the educational system,
differing only in the complexity of the set research
problem. At the same time, a teacher mentor should find pleasure in doing
research work with their students, andregard that as an opportunity to make
their work more interesting and to enhance their own knowledge. At our primary
school we decided to actively integrate students into research work. The
article presents a research assignment in which students in the final year of
primary school (age 14-15) researched the question of what happens to apple
juice of different sorts of apples before and after alcoholic fermentation.
We tried to find out whether the sort of apples and the amount of sugar in
apple juice affect the process of alcoholic fermentation. During experimental
work, we took notes and gathered data on the amount of sugar in juice and the
temperature changes that occur during alcoholic fermentation, which we measured
by using a Vernier interface.

Keywords

Research assignment in primary school, Alcoholic fermentation, Experimental work

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