Analysis of Brownian Motion by Elementary School Students

• Makito Miyazaki ^[1] ; Yosuke Yamazaki ^[2] ; Yamato Hasegawa ^[3]
  1. [1] Kyoto University

     Kyoto University

     Kamigyō-ku, Japón

     
  2. [2] Waseda University

     Waseda University

     Japón

     
  3. [3] Tokyo Tech High School of Science and Technology

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• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 60, Nº. 6, 2022, págs. 478-483
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • To stimulate the intellectual curiosity of elementary school students, we conducted a workshop in distance education aimed at exploring the microscopic world inside a cell. In this workshop, elementary school students motivated to learn more on the subject of science analyzed movies of the Brownian motion of micrometer-sized particles suspended in water, using the open-source software Tracker. These students then performed two-dimensional (2D) random walk experiments using a dice game sheet to examine the physical mechanism of Brownian motion. After the workshop, we conducted a questionnaire-based survey. Many participants answered that the contents were difficult but interesting, suggesting that our workshop was very efficient in stimulating the curiosity of motivated students