Hello,
everyone!
The new
academic year has not started yet, but this long holiday gives me plenty of
time to think. Well, it's good to start preparing early. You know, there are
lots of things to prepare to a new class. Classroom design, syllabus handouts, ice breaker games, students score list... and of course new wall magazine posted on your wall!
As well as last
year, in the incoming academic year, we (physics teachers) will be responsible for 'SPECTRA'.
SPECTRA is the wall magazine in the physics room no.8. Last year, our theme
was about the Sun. We included articles, crossword puzzle, comics and quizzes
for the students to answer and from which they can get a prize. We also added
some drawing from previous year's physics comics drawing competition.
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| Last year's SPECTRA |
Okay,
okay, it looked rather empty. I was lazy last year. :) But I really like the
rocket.
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The rocket in the article is made of crepe
papers. The content of the article is adapted from www.sciencefairadventure.com
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This
year, I have already taken approval from the Physics Department Head. I am
going to take Stellar Evolution as the theme. I know the topic is rather
uncommon for high school students, but Hey!
they need to learn some fun outside the class topics. I am thinking
that the background of the wall magazine will be all black with random tiny
white dots made using a correction pen liquid. This time, I will included
facts about stellar evolution, biography of Chandrasekhar, crossword puzzle
with prize. Of course there will be a HUGE diagram of the stellar evolution,
which label on each phase. I am going to attached all of the materials in this
blog for you, if you want to make the same wall magazine, but using the materials
for reading assignments is just good as well.
This edition will look something like this:
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| Next year's SPECTRA design |
What do
you say?
Above is
the layout for my planned wall magazine. I get the idea from the real diagram
of stellar evolution I read from Wikipedia
The white blocks are each phase in stellar evolution. I am going to put there
picture of the sample star and a little description a high school student can
understand in the next post. You can read, copy, and paste the pictures and
descriptions according to the numbering.
It will
be great if you add edition number of the magazine, similar with normal
magazine. I will print it on a small piece of paper, No. 1/II/July 2016, and
pin it next to the header. The yellow box number 17 will be a space for a
"Foreword" of the wall magazine. You may also add some text
explaining how scientist understand the full cycle of stars since they all
look the same each night. The yellow box no 18 will includes some terms about
stellar evolution, remembering my students are all non-native-English-speakers.
As for the yellow box number 16, I am going to add "Check Your
Understanding" in the form of a crossword. The yellow oval number 19, I
will put a short biography of Chandrasekhar, the person who found the limit for a star to undergo supernova. While the big red box number
20 is the main idea of this wall
magazine, something a student should
learn, something bigger than the understanding of stellar evolution itself :
EVERY BEING WILL SURELY DIE ONE DAY
THE TRUE QUESTION IS NOT "WHEN?"
BUT
"WHAT DOES GOD GIVE US LIFE FOR?"
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