Measuring: AS ARQUÍMEDES DID

Hello everyone!

📽️ In today's post, we will comment on the forth video: Érase una vez... Arquímedes. This video lasts about 25 minutes. In this happens the same as the last one, we are not going to find out specific contexts talking about measurment issues, but we, as a teachers, have to think about a way to introduce the topic, and in the following lines I am going to give you some clues to do it. 

First of all, we must create a context where we explain our students that the video that we are going to see speaks about several important and transversal contents between subjects but at the end of it we will focus on one of them.

This time our friends talk about the mass, volume and density, and the Teacher will be in charge of explaining who Arquímedes was and what he did in relation with mathematics.

In this class we will do games and activities to introduce the topic to the students. All the contents in the video are related with the history and physics subjects, so you can mix the classes so as to the students do not lose the motivation but to review and learn new contents. In addition, we will do 2 experiment, as in the previous classes.

After watching the video it is important to make an introduction in the topic, it is necessary to explain the contents that we will deal with. For that reason, we can use this web page where who was Arquímedes is explained, and then, students can do a little research about the things Arquímedes created which appear in the video.

⚗️ EXPERIMENT 1: for the first activity we will do a series of experiments with the students to work with the concepts of mass, weight, volume and density. In the following PDF you will find everything you need to know to carry them out, both the materials and their procedures. It is very important to carry out experiments in the classroom so that students can see the theory in practice and thus strengthen the knowledge we want them to learn..

📝 ACTIVITY 2: the area and surface of some objects is reflected in the video, can be used as an opportunity to review this knowledge. Since we assume that the students have already learned this thanks to the work we did in other classes that we explained some time ago, we can simply review the contents. Here I leave a series of activities and experiments that can be carried out to review the contents.

I hope you enjoyed this entry!

Marta