LAB-BASED LEARNING IN UNIVERSITY FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS FOCUSED ON ACOUSTICS

Abstract

This paper deals with the using of interactive acoustic experiments in teaching from the lowest levels of the education system, motivation and stimulation into science, physics and acoustics from early childhood. Initial playful experimentation is usually a stimulating factor that will later motivate students to analyse and evaluate higher cognitive goals according to Bloom's taxonomy in their studies at the technical universities. Recording of sounds followed by frequency analysis, investigation of oscillate solid, Chladni's pictures, Kund's tube, Helmholtz resonator and other acoustic experiments are very useful and illustrative not only for students at a technical university but they can also help in building basic ideas about the propagation of sound in children attending the primary school. The Children's University of Žilina every year in summer time try to increase the education level of the nation with the emphasis especially on the young people to show the research and development importance for the future improvement of the society.