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HL: Fachverband Halbleiterphysik

HL 39: Outreach / Wissenschaftskommunikation

HL 39.1: Talk

Thursday, March 21, 2024, 09:30–09:45, EW 015

Curiosity through a playful approach — •Gérald Kämmerer — Faculty of Physics, University of Duisburg-Essen

No one is more enthusiastic than children and teenagers. After all, they’re the physicists of tomorrow, right? As soon as they start physics classes at school, many children and teenagers lose interest in physics and everyday phenomena. For them, physics is often a dry, inaccessible set of formulas and facts. But it is precisely with children and teenagers that one can work with curiosity and enthusiasm. That is why I give talks at events like "freestyle-physics" or the "Lange Nacht der Physik" at the University of Duisburg-Essen. In my talk, I show how I manage to inspire children, teenagers and even teachers again and again. Here, I want to show how I use a playful approach to teach physics in reality and everyday phenomena.

Keywords: Science communication; Physics with children; Hands-on experiments