“Cacharrismo” workshop on S-Team
Main Goal:
A workshop, dedicated to present the concept of “cacharrismo” and give tips on how to use it in educative context such as the European Researchers Night, is being offered
Ideas for employing these experiments within an online environment will be presented as well.
This workshop is aimed at teachers and promoters of scientific outreach (physics, chemistry, math, technology…) that have some level of interest in adding these kinds of techniques to their activities.
Coordinates:
Date and time: October 26, 17 to 19h
Place Zoom (a link will be provided to those signing up)
Introduction, what does “cacharrismo” mean?
Experiments that can be conducted with simple materials are interesting not only due to the rather obvious reason that they can be performed at a very low cost and without any special facilities. This kind of experiments and demonstrations puts into focus the fact that science gives an explanation to the everyday occurrences. This, in short, helps to eliminate the fundamental misconception that science is something that only works on labs,and specialised or high tech environments.
This same attempt to make science more of an everyday thing is what leads to very colloquial names for these experiments: “toys from trash” by Arvind Gupta), “tavern experiments” (experimentos tabernarios, by the project “ciencia en el bar”) or “cacharrismo”, as Javier Fernández Panadero started calling it.
Despite the use of an informal word to describe them, and the fact that they are performed with common materials, they are nonetheless scientific experiments and evidence, which provide deep and rigorous explanations of the phenomena they exemplify. The only thing lost in comparison with more sophisticated laboratories is the ability to make quantitative measures, which demand well characterized materials, reagents with known purities, and well calibrated measurement equipment. But for many didactic goals, “cacharrismo” can be a very interesting concept.
WEBINAR: “Laboratorio S-TEAM. Experimentos científicos”
DATE: 26 October
TIME: 17-19h
PLACE: Zoom
PARTICIPANTS: G9 researchers
REGISTRATION: Here
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