Preparation & Development of low-cost Improvised Apparatus for Science Teaching

The presentation is addressing the issue of why we need low-cost Improvised Apparatus for Science Teaching in Indian context.

2. 1. What is Apparatus?
2. What is Improvised Apparatus?
3. Logic Behind using low cost
Improvised Apparatus
4. Steps involved in preparing Improvised
Apparatus
5. Advantages of using low cost
Improvised Apparatus

3. The things (equipment) needed to carry out an experiment.

4. Animprovisedapparatusinscience
projectsisanapparatuswhichisusedas
analternativefortheoriginalequipment.
Theuseofimprovisedapparatusisan
effectivesteptakentowardsreducing
thecostinIntegratedScienceteaching.

6. Learningscienceshouldstartwithhandson
experiencesthatthechildisfamiliarwithand
notwithabstractdefinitionsaboutwhat
scienceis.Lowcostapparatusfromlocally
availablematerialsisbelievedtoenrichthe
capacitytoobserve,explainanddoreal
scienceinschoolsandincreasethequalityof
learning.
Comparativelythelowcostmaterialsoffered
analternativesolutiontodosciencein
classrooms under difficultfinancial
constraints.

7. Makingacarefulstudyoftheconventionalapparatusor
experiment.
Thinkingofsomelowcostsubstitutethatmaybeavailable
inthelocality.
Designingtheimprovisedapparatusorexperiment.
Puttingtheimprovisedapparatusorexperimenttotest.
Makingfurtherimprovementsintheimprovisedapparatus
keepingthetestresultsinmind.
Makinguseoftheimprovisedapparatusinthelaboratory
fordemonstrationorpracticalwork.

9. 1.useoflocalmaterialsmakesteachersand
learnersawareoftheresourcestobefoundin
theirenvironmentandstimulatescreativityto
usethem.
2.Theexperimentsandmodelscanbe
constructedinaveryshorttime,withafew
tools,withlocallyavailablematerialsevenby
unskilledpersonsaspartofpre-andin-service
teachertraining.
3.Theself-constructiondevelopsasenseof
proudownershipandpromotesamore
frequentuse.
(cont. on next slide)

10. 4.Repairandreplacementofbrokenparts
arepossiblelocallywithouttechnicalor
administrativeproblems.
5.Forthestoragenospecialstoragefacility
isneeded;alockablecupboardisenough.
Securityisnoproblem,becauseofthelow
materialvalue.
6.Fortheimplementationnospecial
infrastructureisneeded.Theinnovationsgo
straighttotheschools.Whathasbeen
learnedtodayinatrainingworkshopcan
beappliedtomorrowintheclassroom.