Materials for outdoor lessons

This year, the World Cup may not take place until winter, but teachers and their students don't have to miss out on sports in spring. The following units are suitable for outdoor lessons. This year, the World Cup may not take place until winter, but teachers and their students don't have to miss out on sports in spring. The following units are suitable for outdoor lessons.

Let’s Get Physical – Measurement, Analysis and Improvement of Performance: The teaching unit ‘Let’s Get Physical’ shows how to combine sports, biology, computer sciences (ICT) and mathematics: Students measure and analyse in five different performance tests how regular and intensive training effects their speed, jumping power, strength, movement coordination, agility and endurance. This way they get familiar with the concept ‚performance‘ on different scientific levels. (Biology, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Sports)

Smartphones are by now a fundamental piece of our everyday life, especially for young people!  20 teachers from 14 European countries worked out eleven teaching units that show how Smartphones and Apps are to be used for fascinating experiments in maths, physics, chemistry or biology classes.

iSky: Smart Measurements of the Heavens & the determination of position with smartphones: This unit inspires students to investigate the stars. Using various apps of their smartphones the students learn how to orientate themselves based on the night sky, how to measure the altitude of the sun or how to calculate the circumference of the earth. (Astronomy, Geography, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics)

Going for a Song: Measuring noise pollution with a smartphone: Do birds sing louder in the city while trying to drown out the high background noise? Using smartphones and free apps they measure the amplitudes and frequencies of birdsongs in the city and in the countryside. This way the students analyse the direct effect of noise pollution on the behaviour of the animals. (Biology, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics)

Spot the Physics: Analysing movements, acceleration and free fall by video: Teaching and learning contents of physics and sports can easily be combined and digitally analysed. This teaching unit shows how it works: With their smartphones students record various motion sequences during sportive activities like the throwing of a basket ball or the acceleration during a bicycle ride. Later the students analyse the recorded videos to determine which physical theories can describe the phenomena observed. (Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics)