Extracurricular activities in children always cause feelings of joy and enthusiasm. While they are also part of the educational process. Physics appears in the school curriculum from grade 7. This is one of the most complex subjects, but basic in the field of natural sciences.
Often children, having missed one lesson due to illness, cease to understand what the teacher is telling. Interest in further study may be lost. It is useless in this case to punish the child. It all depends on the experience of the teacher and his interest in giving the children decent knowledge of the subject. The teacher can return interest in physics in two ways:
- Conduct additional classes with lagging children.
- Stimulate students to self-education through an extra-curricular event.
How and when to conduct a lesson?
Extracurricular activities in physics in the 7th grade should be held at least twice a year. Initially, it is important to arouse children's interest in a new subject. And during the year, it is worth conducting extracurricular activities to reveal the level of knowledge of the children.
The event at the beginning of the year is best held with the involvement of high school students, so that children can see that their predecessors liked the physicist. In this case, the following events are suitable: “Initiation into young physicists”, “Physics around us”, “In the country of Physics”.
But the event, held during the year, must be prepared already with the participation of the 7 classes themselves. At this point, they will already have some basic knowledge. Here the most successful will be an extra-curricular event in physics, timed to the end of the subject week. Children will be able to demonstrate their knowledge and skills and learn new things from high school students. Therefore, an extra-curricular event dedicated to the week of physics is best done in an open type, and teams are created from children of different age categories.
How to prepare a physics event in grade 7?
Each teacher wants his extracurricular activities to be held at a high level. And for this you need to carry out colossal training. The physics teacher needs to remember the following points.
- It is necessary to set real goals and objectives for the event. So that their achievement could please both the teacher and the children.
- Do not weigh all the work on preparing the event only for yourself. Children are no longer first-graders, which means they can complete the tasks.
- When entrusting children with the work of preparing the event, it is worthwhile to analyze who will be able to carry it out precisely and who needs help.
- Do not reject the guys who have shown the initiative to help, even if their success in the subject is not perfect.
- It is necessary to make a scenario of an extra-curricular event in physics in advance.
- To familiarize students with the main points of the event is necessary before it. You can designate responsibility for a specific part of the event.
- All children should be involved in the event. Perhaps a student who is not distinguished by knowledge of physics can be an excellent presenter of an extra-curricular event.
Extracurricular activities in physics in the 7th grade should not last more than 1.5 hours. Otherwise, the children will be tired and will not perceive the information in full.
How to conduct a physics event in 7th grade?
It was in the seventh grade that children first became acquainted with physics. And how successful the child is will depend largely on the teacher. Involving extracurricular activities in the educational process is one of the most effective methods. In order for the event to be successful, the teacher may need to develop extra-curricular activities in physics over the past years, using their detailed analysis, you can create a new one from the best.
Of course, the crown moment in such events is to conduct experiments and the opportunity for the class to participate in it. In addition, do not forget that an extracurricular event is not an educational process, but to a large extent educational. Therefore, you do not need to clutter it with theory, give children the opportunity to rest. Use comic songs, theatrical sketches, ditties, verses on the theme of physics in your script.
Extracurricular Event Analysis
After each extracurricular activity at school, the teacher needs to do an analysis. It should be conducted not from the point of view of the educational process, although without it anywhere, but from the point of view of children's opinions. Indeed, in order to become a real teacher, sometimes you have to listen not only to your mentors, but also to your students.
Each teacher, conducting self-analysis, should be critical of each item. Indeed, only a true assessment and the ability to self-criticism can help the teacher next year to conduct an extra-curricular event in physics at an even higher level.
An analysis of the extracurricular event should be applied to the development of this event so that in the following years not to make the mistakes that had to be faced.
Physics week at school
Conducting weeks devoted to different subjects has become very popular in secondary schools. Extracurricular activities of the physics week can be as follows.
- Monday is the day of puzzles, riddles and crosswords.
- Tuesday is the day of the physical quiz.
- Wednesday is the day of drawings in physics (there can be portraits of scientists, various schemes, drawings of experiments).
- Thursday is an open laboratory day.
- Friday is the closing day of the physics week. An open extracurricular event in physics is being held.
Each child who takes part in events dedicated to a particular subject should be rewarded. It can be prizes, diplomas, medals or marks on the subject. This is done so that in the subsequent years of schooling the student would not want to just sit out at events.
Extracurricular activities - a step into adulthood
When preparing a lesson, each teacher should look at his students as assistants who are able to carry out responsible work. For example, by preparing an extra-curricular event in physics, the 7th grade may take responsibility for the development of historical excursions, questions for the team of rivals on a given topic. In addition, many students can act as facilitators of the event. Older children can independently conduct experiments in physics.
All this contributes to the growth of personality. Children, realizing the responsibility assigned to them, strive to be the best. And this is a direct path to self-education. They play, trying on different life professions: laboratory assistant, teacher, presenter, historian, DJ (after all, no event is complete without musical accompaniment).
Physics is the science of life
Like many other subjects, physics gives vital knowledge (grade 7). Extracurricular activities should show all the important aspects of this science in human life. Guys should find answers to questions that interest them from early childhood. For example, how the refrigerator is arranged, how to fix the clock, why the garland has stopped glowing, why the first radio is completely different from the modern one, etc.
Oddly enough, but it is physics that is ready to give answers to all these questions. The guys, realizing how important this subject is for human life, will not be able to remain indifferent to it.
The scenario of an extra-curricular activity for children can be composed in a playful way. You can use the well-known cartoon characters, for example, fixatives. Such an activity can be made open and younger students can be invited to it.
One scenario
Occupation should be vivid and memorable. The action plan may be as follows.
- The performance of the teacher. The teacher talks about the importance of science in life.
- The guys are divided into teams that are named after the cartoon characters.
- Schoolchildren solve simple physics problems for a while.
- The guys show pre-prepared scenes about the operation of home appliances.
- Conclusion Awarding the winning team.
An event of such a plan will help to identify the level of knowledge of the children, as well as arouse interest in the further study of physics not only among seventh graders, but also among primary school children.
Finally
I would like to note that teachers who prepare extra-curricular activities should first of all focus on the interests of children. Then educational material is taken into account. Any, even the most boring information can always be submitted in its original form.