Physics
I.02 Electrical Communications and Thermodynamics
Florian Schulz | Saturday – Thursday, 8 – 9.30 am
From analog telephones to fiber optic transmission: the modern telephone network, IP telephony over the internet and a demonstration device for optical signal transmission.
We will experimentally investigate the quality characteristics of loudspeakers, the impact of digitalization on sound.
Evaporation and condensation, compression and expansion: principles of heat pumps using experimental series.
V.37 (bilingual) Tips for Physics Experiments in 9th Grade
Florian Schulz | Saturday – Tuesday, 7.15 – 8.30 pm
Details about the experiments from the morning course.
Questions from participants.
Building simple loudspeakers and carbon microphones.
Mathematics
III.21 Conic Sections: Dynamic and Networked Thinking
Jessica Krause | Saturday – Wednesday, 2.45 – 4.15 pm
How can dynamic and networked thinking be practiced in Grade 9 using conic sections?
We gain practical experience with many different constructions and imagination exercises.
Please bring drawing equipment with you for the course: ruler, protractor, compass, pencil, colored pencils.
III.22 (bilingual) Geometry in Space
Thomas Neukirchner | Saturday – Wednesday, 2.45 – 4.15 pm
- Imagination and drawing exercises
- Platonic and Archimedean solids
- Calculation and Construction of an invertible cube
IV.30 Combinatorics – An access to Math in the Upper School
Steffen Brasch | Saturday – Wednesday, 4.45 – 6.15 pm
This course presents a well tested approach for that main lesson course bringing the students into an active debate on mathematical questions. Dealing with them leads the students to discovering mathematical laws on their own.
The main goal is to show the students a general approach for mathematical thinking and working. Learning formulas in contrast is not the main goal in this main lesson course.
The students are working on a broad range of combinatorical questions and problems which all lead to Pascal’s triangle.
V.38 (bilingual) Math Hands On
Steffen Brasch, Thomas Neukirchner | Saturday – Tuesday, 7.15 – 8.30 pm
We want to tackle mathematics together in a practical way. It is valuable for pupils to experience the topics in a hands-on way and to be able to get actively involved themselves.
We want to build and craft Platonic and other solids in such a way that we specifically address different points of view through the type of construction.
Bringing scissors, pens and a ruler is helpful, but the desire to get involved is more important.
V.39 Math as a Journey of Exploration
Birte Vestergaard | Saturday – Tuesday, 7.15 – 8.30 pm
Creating a classroom environment where students feel safe to fail, safe to ask questions and to share their ideas. How this safety makes it possible to turn the differences of academic levels among students into valuable teaching resources.
On this basis: How can math be taught as a journey of exploration, using discovery sheets, that make the students discover mathematical laws themselves working in small groups? How to create own discovery sheets.
Computer Science
II.10 (bilingual) Introductions to Programming / Coding: Robot Karol and Scratch
Robert Neumann, Norbert Harz | Saturday – Wednesday, 11.30 – 1 pm, und Thursday, 9.45 – 11 am
Robot Karol as an easy-to-understand, text-based programming language.
Scratch, by contrast, as a graphical/block-based programming language.
Introduction to Scratch not »step by step,« but directly through the task of programming a small game.