BVN-IAPT ANVESHIKAExploring physics through demonstration, hands on experience and brain storming sessions

April 2015 – June 2015

June 2015

Activity 3: Date: 27th June 2015Time: 08:30 AM – 10:30 AMVenue: Kendriya Vidyalaya 3, Hindan, Ghaziabad Title of the program: ‘Science Workshop’No of students: 60 students of classes VII & IXResource Persons: 1. Pragya Nopany 2. Sutapa LahaDeSpecial Initiative: Principal Mrs Jaishree, KV Hindan

Activities on fluid pressure, Newton’s Laws of motion, various types of forces and ray optics kept the students enthralled. Their keen observation, active participation in discussion, eagerness for hands on experience made the session enriching and satisfying for all.

Activity 2: Date: 6th June 2015Time: 09:00 AM – 12:30 PMVenue: Kendriya Vidyalaya 3, Naraina, Delhi Title of the program: ‘Physics Workshop’No f teachers: 50 PGTs from KVS countrywideResource Persons: 1. Pragya Nopany 2. Renu MittalSpecial Initiative: Principal Dr Sanjay, KV 3 Cantt

What a rich interaction on Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics & Optics – the ‘jugalbandi’ between the KVS teachers and the resource person was amazing raised the level of the workshop for both.

Activity 1:

Date: 5th June 2015Time: 08:30 AM – 11:30 AMVenue: Kendriya Vidyalaya, Rangpuri, Delhi Title of the program: ‘Science Workshop’No of teachers: 35 TGTs from all India Kendriya Vidyalaya SangathanResource Persons: 1. Pragya Nopany 2. Sutapa LahaDeSpecial Initiative: Principal, KV Rangpuri

Demonstration of activities on ‘Mechanics’ and ‘Optics’ got the teachers excited and they discussed in great detail about each aspect of the demonstration and how to drive home the underlying concept to the students in the class. After the program they remarked about not realizing how the time of 3 hours passed away! This is the aim – to make students enjoy the lecture thoroughly!

May 2015

Activity 6: Date: 25th May 2015Time: 08:30 AM –11:00 AMVenue: Sri Venkateswara International School, DwarkaNo of Participating Students: 130 Students of Class X, XI & XII No f teachers: 2 PGTs + 3 TGTResource Persons: 1. Sutapa LahaDe 2. M.K.UmaSpecial Initiative: Ms Manisha Aggrawal of Sri Venkateswara International School

The students were introduced to the thrilling world of physics. The workshop focused on demonstrations on electromagnetism and optics. The

student volunteers loved the first hand experience and the other budding scientists had a lot of queries after seeing the activities.

Activity 5:

Date: 20th May 2015Time: 10:30 AM –01:15 PMVenue: The Indian School, DelhiNo of Participating Students: 60 Students of Class XI & XII No f teachers: 1 PGTs + 2 TGTResource Persons: 1. Pragya Nopany 2. Sutapa LahaDeSpecial Initiative: Ms. Archana Raichandani of The Indian School

Extremely interesting, interactive and intriguing – that is how students described the session! They said it was a very innovative way to help them learn the concepts of physics, a fun way to link studies with the actual practical applications of physics in day to day life.

Mechanics & Electrostatics were the topics of demonstration & discussion.

Activity 4:

Date: 16th May 2015Time: 08:30 AM –10:30 AMVenue: Kerala School, Copernicus Marg, DelhiNo of Participating Students: 60 Students of Class XII No f teachers: 2 Resource Persons: 1. Sutapa LahaDe 2. Renu MittalSpecial Initiative: Ms Yamuna Shekhar of Kerala School

In this workshop on ‘Electrostatics’ & ‘Optics’, the students were introduced to the concepts of charge, conduction, induction, electric field, potential difference across an electric field, equipotential surfaces, capacitor, reflection, refraction, diffraction, polarization of light.

The students appreciated that even though the material was low cost, yet the demonstrations were very effective in clearing the concepts.

Activity 3:

Date: 14th May 2015Time: 3:30 PM – 5:30 PMVenue: DPS Society, Dwarka, DelhiNo of Participating Students: 100 National toppers of class IX from DPS Schools nationwide No f teachers: 45Resource Persons: 1. Pragya Nopany 2. Sutapa LahaDeSpecial Initiative: Mr Subodh Kumar of DPS, RK Puram

For the students so used to excel in competitive exams by solving numerical, this program was an eye-opener. They found the session ‘awesome’, ‘different’ and ‘’exceeding the standards set by previous sessions’.

Mind tickling demonstrations from Fluid Mechanics, light and Mechanics mesmerized the students and teachers alike. Some of the teachers also got excited and came forward as volunteers!

Activity 2:

Date: 9th May 2015Time: 09:30 AM –12:00 NoonVenue: DLF Public School, GhaziabadNo of Participating Students: 60 Students of Class XII No f teachers: 2 PGTs + 2 TGTResource Persons: 1. Pragya Nopany 2. Sutapa LahaDeSpecial Initiative: Suruchi Agarwal of DLF Public School, Ghaziabad

Programme Details:

Activities from Mechanics, Electrostatics, current electricity, electromagnetism & optics were carefully selected to draw the students’ attention and engage them in fruitful discussion.

The program was a 'jugalbandi' between the resource persons and the students and everyone thoroughly enjoyed the experience!

The students were amazed to see activities which were presented in fun way yet cleared their concepts so easily. They interacted eagerly without hesitation and said that the workshop was beyond the barriers of language, marks and worked equally well for all of them.

Activity 1:

Date: 2nd May 2015Time: 10:30 AM –1:30 PMVenue: DLDAV Public School, VikaspuriNo of Participating teachers: 27 PGTsResource Persons: 1. Mrs Pragya Nopany 2. Mrs Vinita SharatSpecial Initiative: Ms Poonam Rajput of DLDAV Public School, Vikaspuri

‘Optics’, ‘Mechanics’ and ‘Electromagnetism’ were the major topics of demonstrations for this teachers training program.

The fully involved participation of the teachers and the rich discussion on each activity raised the level of the workshop and was truly rewarding.

April 2015

Activity 5:

Date: 18th April 2015Time: 10:30 AM –1:30 PMVenue: Vidyagyan, Bulandshahar ( A Shiv Nadar Organisation)No of Participating Students: 50 Students of Class IX, X, XI, XII No f teachers: 2 PGTs + 1 TGTResource Persons: 1. Pragya Nopany 2. Uma M.K.Special Initiative: Ms Neeraj Taneja of Vidyagyan

Programme Details:

Program started with welcome of resource persons by the student representatives. Taking over, Mrs Pragya Nopany showed many activities on electrostatics and current electricity. The students were happy to see such a program for the first time and applied their minds very enthusiastically. They were mesmerized by the simple electrostatic motor and pie plate oscillator.

Ms Uma continued with more activities on Electromagnetism covering a variety of concepts like Fleming’s left hand rule, mutual induction, eddy currents.

What a joy it was to interact with these brilliant students from underprivileged background at Vidyagyan. Great enthusiasm and quick to grasp, the resource person were so motivated by the lot that they went out of the way to show more activities on Optics even beyond the time. Using LASER, rectilinear propagation of light, reflection, refraction and total internal reflection, diffraction were demonstrated.

The students showed their own work including investigatory projects they had done. They also showed an award winning project on cleaning of rivers.

Activity 4:

Date: 13th April 2015Time: 9:30 AM –12:30 PMVenue: Manavsthali School, New Rajendra Nagar, DelhiNo of Participating Students: 200 Students of Classes X, XI & XII No f teachers: 2 PGTsResource Person: Dr B. N. DasSpecial Initiative: M.K.Uma of Manavsthali School

Programme Details:

In association with BVN-IAPT ANVESHIKA, Manav Sthali School, R Block, New Rajendra Nagar, Delhi, organized an Interactive workshop for the students of the school.

The objective of the workshop was to ignite the young minds to the wonders of PHYSICS through demonstrations of the concepts using easily available materials so that the students could perform them even at home. It was ‘LEARNING BY DOING AND EXPERIENCING’.

Dr. B.N. Das was welcomed with a bouquet of flowers and a standing ovation of the audience.

Dr. Das then opened his ‘MAGIC BOX’ out of which popped out numerous exhibits and items. He moved around the audience keeping them mesmerized with his talk and innovative experiments and demonstrations. He enthusiastically answered the questions posed by the students. He even painstakingly explained the step by step method of constructing the exhibits too. His explanation of the concepts excited the young minds, leaving deep impressions. The Topics covered were ‘General Physics’, ‘Optics’ ‘Magnetism’ and ‘Electromagnetism’

After the workshop, students crowded round Dr. Das, clearing their doubts on other topics, not wanting to leave the place even though the school bell rang. Then went back enriched in their experience and ignited in their minds.

Activity 3:

Date: 11th April 2015Time: 9:30 AM –1:00 PMVenue: A. E. S. Senior Sec. School, Prasad Nagar, Karol Bagh, New Delhi-05No of Participating Students: 75 Students of Class XII No f teachers: 27 PGTs & TGTsChief Guest: Dr. P.C. Bose, Former D.D.EChief Resource Person: Dr B. N. DasAnveshika Resource Person: Mrs. Sutapa Laha DeSpecial Initiative: Ms Sundari of A. E. S. Senior Sec. School, Prasad Nagar

Programme Details: In association with BVN-IAPT Anveshika, A.E.S.Sr.Sec.School, Prasad Nagar organized a Physics workshop “LEARN BY DOING”. The objective of the workshop was to expose the teachers and students to demonstration activities that make learning of the physics concepts easy.

The program began with a devotional song and Lighting of the Lamp. The Principal of the school Mrs. B.Dhana Lakshmi welcomed the gathering of students and teachers from all schools of Andhra Educational Society. She wanted the session to promote the ‘CULTURE TO QUERY’.

The program began with showing of activities on EMI and LIGHT by three students under the guidance of Mrs. Sutapa LahaDe. Dr. Das appreciated the students’ enthusiasm. Dr Das then took over the session and demonstrated numerous innovative activities to clear the concepts. He also answered students’ queries with patience in detail.

Mrs. Sutapa LahaDe, resource person from BVN-IAPT Anveshika expressed her appreciation for the efforts put in by the school to organize the workshop.

The Principal thanked Dr.Das, Dr.P.C.Bose and Mrs. Sutapa for their zeal to promote science and Mrs. A.B.T.Sundari, the program Coordinator, for her efforts to organize such excellent workshop to ignite the minds of the students through activities.

The program ended with vote of thanks by the Vice Principal Mr. G.U.Naidu.

Activity 2:

Date: 10th April 2015Time: 08:30 AM – 01:00 PMVenue: Father Agnel School, Gautam Nagar, Delhi Title of the program: ‘Learning with Meaning’No of Participating Students: 130 Students of Class XII from 21 schoolsNo f teachers: 45 PGTs Chief Resource Person: Dr B. N. DasSpecial Initiative: Aruna Jalan of Father Agnel School

Programme Details: In association with BVN-IAPT ANVESHIKA, Father Agnel School, Gautam Nagar, Delhi organized a Physics workshop “LEARNING WITH MEANING” The objective of the workshop was to expose the teachers to the power they have within their limited means, time and infrastructure to transform their Physics class into a live wire class room bursting with ideas.

The program began with a beautiful shloka by the students of the school and the Lighting of The Lamp.The Principal of the school, Fr. J.A. Carvalho welcomed the gathering of students and teachers from various schools across the NCR. He emphasized on the ‘the ‘courage to question, to seek answers’.

The Resource person for the day, Dr. B. N. Das took over the session zealously answering the questions posed by the audience. He proceeded to demonstrate numerous activities with inexpensive materials and explain concepts of Physics in very simple ways. His experiments were innovative and covered optics, electromagnetism, surface tension, pressure and many more.

The students of Father Agnel School also showed their activities after Tea and enthralled not only Dr. Das but the audience also.

Although the Workshop time was up to 1:00 pm but much beyond the time, the excited students and teachers could be seen discussing in groups the interesting questions posed by Dr. Das.

Mrs Pragya Nopany, Co-ordinator, BVN-IAPT ANVESHIKA acknowledged the sincere efforts of the Principal, Fr. Carvalho, HOD Physics Mr. Ravindra, the Program Coordinator Mrs. Aruna Jalan and her team of staff & students for taking the movement forward with unmatched zeal. The session ended with a Vote of Thanks by Mr. Ravindra.

Activity 1:

Date: 1st April 2015Time: 08:30 AM – 01:00 PMVenue: Kendriya Vidyalaya, Andrews Ganj, Delhi Title of the program: ‘Science Workshop’No of Participating Students: 30 Students No f teachers: 30 TGTs Chief Resource Person: Mr Samar Bagchi

Simple explanation, crystal clear logic, humor & poetry, unmatched zeal makes Mr Bagchi an instant hit with audiences. He took up Newton’s laws and fluid mechanics and used low cost apparatus to illustrate the concepts.

The program was organized by Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan through special efforts by BVN-IAPT Anvshika.