Training for KVS Teachers
Date: 31st March 2015Time: 09:00 AM 01:00 PM Venue: Kendriya
Vidyalaya, RK Puram Sector 8No of participants: Teachers: 38 TGTs
Students: 40 studnts of class XIIChief Resource Person: Mr Samar
BagchiAssistance from Anveshika: Vinita Sharat, Renu Mittal
Mr Bagchi dealt with Archimedes Principle, Air Pressure, Surface
tension and Newtons Laws of Motion through his low cost apparatus
and offered insight into seemingly difficult concepts with very
simple explanations.Mrs Indu Kaushik, Assistant Commissioner, KVS
was also present during the program.The program was organised by
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan through special efforts by BVN-IAPT
Anveshika.
Training for NDMC Schools Teachers
Date: 30th March 2015Time: 10:30 AM 01:00 PM Venue: NDMC
Conference Hall, Sansad margNo of participants: Teachers: 32 TGTs,
Students: 10 students of class XIIChief Resource Person: Mr Samar
BagchiAssisting Resource Persons from Anveshika: Sutapa LahaDe,
Pragya Nopany
Touching everyones heart with his humour and simple, easy to
grasp explanations, Mr Bagchi was an instant hit with the audience.
He dealt with Newtons laws of motions & Fluid mechanics using
very low cost demonstrations. Mrs Sutapa Laha De & Pragya
Nopany also showed one experiment each. Mrs Vidushi Chaturvedi,
Director NDMC was also present at the occasion.
The program was organised by NDMC through special efforts by
Sutapa Laha De, a resource person of BVN-IAPT Anveshika.
From Conventional to Empirical
Date: 14th March 2015Time: 08:30 AM 02:30 PM Venue: The Heritage
School, GurgaonName of the workshop: From Conventional to
EmpiricalNo of participating teachers: 51 TGTs & PGTsChief
Resource Person: Dr H.C.VermaAnveshika Resource Persons: Mrs Pragya
Nopany, Sutapa LahaDe, M.K.Uma, Smita Fangaria
With full support from BVN-IAPT Anveshika, The Heritage School
Gurgaon hosted an interactive physics workshop conducted by Prof.
H.C.Verma to a packed auditorium of physics teachers from schools
all over NCR.
Inspiring teachers, in his motivational lecture Dr Verma said in
my 30 years as an IIT professor, I don't need to know more that 25
formulae. Then why do we force kids to remember 500 formulae?! More
than succeeding in exams, it is important to feel science...
Praising the demonstration experiments developed by BVN-IAPT
Anveshika, he said he does not need to bring any experiments with
him to Delhi and invited Anveshika resource persons to demonstrate
on stage.
He led the discussion on each experiment through his probing,
mind tickling questions, highlighting how our observation of
different aspects of same experiment can bring excitement and joy.
He showed us practically how to get the students to fall in love
with the subject by moving beyond definitions and equations.
From Fear to Fascination - Physics through activities
Date: 27th Sept 2014Time: 08:30 AM 04:30 PMVenue: Birla Vidya
Niketan Title of workshop: From Fear to Fascination - Physics
through activitiesNo of Participating Schools: 50No of
Participants: 300Level of Participants: Class XI & XII students
& PGTs Chief Resource Person: Dr H.C.Verma, Professor of
Physics IIT, Kanpur Guests of Honour: 1. Mrs. Renu Sharma, Deputy
Director of Education, Directorate of Education, South Delhi2. Mr.
Mani, Deputy Commisioner, Kendriya Vidyalaya Sanghatan, Gurgaon
RegionResource Persons from BVN-IAPT Anveshika: 1. Mrs Vinita
Sharat2. Mrs P. Uma
The event commenced with the welcome address by the Principal
Ms. Meenakshi Kushwaha who urged the students to take up research
endeavors in science and not go for conventional career options.
The chief guest Mrs Renu Sharma welcomed the efforts of BVN-IAPT
Anveshika to make learning of physics easier through interesting
activities especially because students find physics very
stressful.
Interacting with students at length Dr. H.C.Verma explained his
joy of learning physics through experimentation and asked the
students to delve into the road not taken. In a stimulating session
next, Dr Verma demonstrated numerous activities designed by him for
the senior secondary students. We sat with awestruck faces, as he
drew our attention like a magnet commented Nikita , a student of
Amity International School.
With the objective of showing the effectiveness of teaching
through activities BVN-IAPT Anveshika resource persons Ms. Vineeta
Sharat and Ms. M. K. Uma took up two model classes for teachers on
Refraction of Light and Electromagnetism respectively.
For teaching the complex concepts of Thermodynamics, an
exclusive teachers session was conducted by Dr Verma in which
through a series of experiments he debunked several myths of
physics that we blindly follow.
The session ended with a vote of thanks by Mrs Pragya Nopany,
co-ordinator, BVN-IAPT Anveshika.
The event was a huge success because it not only helped the
students in appreciating the beauty of physics but also channeling
their natural curiosity into quest for finding this beauty in
everything around them.The event was covered by NDTV India and
shown on their Hindi channel on 29-09-2014