PHYSICS in SCHOOL ARCHITECTURE

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PHYSICS in SCHOOL ARCHITECTURE WORLD YEAR OF
PHYSICS 2005 in SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO Mirjana
Boic Institute of Physics, Beograd European
Meeting of the World Year of Physics 2005,
Milhouse, France, 15-16 October, 2004
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PHYSICS IN SCHOOL ARCHITECTURE (PHYSARCH)Entangli
ng school architecture and physics educationby
mapping nature around, onto and into school
buildingsMaking physics part of a school as a
3-dimensional textbook

• PHYSARCH Working Group
• Mirjana Boic, SRM
• Beverly Hartline, USA
• Vigor Majic, SRM
• Slavica Nikolic, SRM
• Dejan Pantelic, SRM
• Mayank Vahia, India
• Lepa Vukovic, USA
  
• The Physarch Working Group is open to new members

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OBJECTIVES

• To promote and develop the idea of
  implementing physical principles, laws and
  phenomena into school architecture with the aim
  to
• make physics more appealing to young people
  and students,
• contribute to the development of curiosity
  in students,
• create school environment that is
  interactive and dynamic and enhances learning of
  physics,
• afford physical experiences that direct
  and inspire a future scientist.
• To connect PHYSARCH idea and principles
  with modern tendencies in educational
  architecture.
• To renovate and build schools and school
  courtyards using designs which take into account
  principles of PHYSARCH and modern tendencies in
  school architecture.

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GUIDELINES for DEVELOPMENT of PHYSARCH

• Promotion
• Collection of examples
• Prototype models
• Design
• Educational legislatures
• Physarch workshop

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Promotion among physicists, architects,
educational state legislatures, communities and
public with the aim to establish dialogue and
collaboration for achieving goals of PHYSARCH.

• Methods of promotion
• Participation with articles at meetings and
  conferences in physics education and in
  architecture
• Publication of articles in educational and
  architectural journals
• Participation in International Forum for
  Innovative Schools DesignShare.
• Participation at the summit on school design to
  be held in 2005, as announced by the American
  Architectural Foundation
• Participation at national meetings of schools
  administrators
• Organizing workshops
• Communication through the Internet
• Information and articles in press and electronic
  media

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The project initiated at the WYP2005 conference
in Graz, http//www.wyp2005.at/index.html. The
development of the project is being presented at
http//www.wyp2005.org/activities.htmlinternat
ionalhttp//octopus.phy.bg.ac.yu/bozic/eduarch.h
tml.

• M. Boic, D. Pantelic and S. Nikolic,
  Physics in school architecture, Proc. Fifth
  Conference of the Balkan Physical Union, Vrnjacka
  Banja, Serbia and Montenegro (2003),
  http//www.phy.bg.ac.yu/jdf/bpu5/
• M. Boic, D. Pantelic, L.Vukovic, S.Nikolic
  and V. Majic
• Entangling School Architecture and Physics
  Education
• submitted to Physics Teacher, October 2004.

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From the issue dated March 26, 2004
UTAH STATE U.An Engineering Building That
Teaches The university and MHTN Architects, a
Salt Lake City firm, designed this ordinary
engineering building to be a learning tool for
the structural engineers who will study here.
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Great Schools by Design The American
Architectural Foundation Launches National
Initiative

• March 3, 2004 Washington, D.C. A major
  initiative aimed at transforming the way
  America's public schools are planned and designed
  was announced here today by the American
  Architectural Foundation (AAF) at the annual
  Accent on Architecture Gala.
• Great Schools by Design is a national initiative
  developed by the AAF in response to the
  challenges communities face because of the
  deteriorating condition of public schools and the
  need to build new schools. More than 55 million
  Americans, one fifth of the population, spend
  their days in our nation's elementary and
  secondary school buildings, many of which are in
  disrepair..
• Late spring and summer forums are being planned
  with school superintendents, teachers and other
  stakeholders. The forums will provide the
  background for a major national summit on school
  design to be held in 2005.

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Collection of examples. Collecting examples of
educational aids and devices for demonstration of
basic physical phenomena and laws, which are
suitable to be incorporated into school building.
Physicists teachers, professors and scientists
are invited to participate in collecting those
examples. The methods of teaching using those
devices in the school building should be
described, too.

• At some point a Collection of Physarch
  examples, design ideas and case studies be
  published as a book. It will contain drawings
  and photos of prototype models and designs,
  accompanied with explanations and didactic
  instructions.

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Prototype models. Producing the prototype
models of examples from the Collection of
examples by producers of educational equipment.

• Existing models in Science museums will be
  taken into account, too.

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Filters and mirrors on a window to observe the
colour mixing of Sun light , drawn from 3D Studio
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Filters and mirrors on a window to observe the
colour mixing of Sun light, model.
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Transparent dome with a diaphragm and a mechanism
to record daily and annual path of the Sun.
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Column for physical geography in the school
courtyard.
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The staircase in Clore Garden of Science,
Weizmann Institute, Israel
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Clore Garden of Science, Weizmann Institute of
Science, http//www.weizmann.ac.il/diff_angl
e/
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On a globe having the same orientation as the
Earth one may observe and determine the
position of a day-night
line and its motion over the Earth.
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The local horizon in the observer and local
horizon of the Corresponding point of the globe
have to be paralel.The North-South axis of the
globe should point towards the Celestial North
Pole.
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Globe oriented as the Earth may be used in the
activity Science on the Beach which is planned
by Netherlands physicists
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U.S. Naval ObservatoryAstronomical Applications
DepartmentDay and Night Across the Earth on
2004 Oct 10 at 1439 UT
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Design. Physarch is ideal for achieving and
realizing goals promoted and advocated by the
Innovative Forum for Innovative School
Design-DesingShare, by American Architectural
Foundation and other associations of architects.
Architects whose aim is to make school a
3-dimensional text book. are invited to use
the examples and models from Physarch.

• Innovative School Designs DesignShare Awards
  1997-2004, http//designshare.com/Awards/default.
  asp

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Educational legislatures

• State educational legislatures, local
  communities and school authorities are invited
  to formulate guidelines and sets of rules to
  advance goals and principles of PHYSARCH. These
  principles should be incorporated into the
  educational legislature. These principles should
  be also promoted among scientific authorities,
  successful businessmen and potential investors.

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Physarch workshop

• will be organized in. Participants will be
  physicist, architects, local authorities, state
  educational legislatures and others who took part
  in Physarch project. They will present and
  analyse their contributions to various parts of
  the project and make plans for future work.
• The place and time of the Workshop will be
  announced by the end of 2004.

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• Participation of SRM in the
• WYP2005 International activities
• International Launch Event of the WYP2005
• Physics for Tomorrow
• Physics talent search
• Physics as a cultural heritage
• Physics enlightens the world
• Physics in school architecture
• Participation in other activities is
  eventually possible.
• Coordinator Marko Popovic marko_at_phy.bg.ac.yu

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International Launch Event of the World Year of
Physics

• Responsible in SRM
• Ilija Savic, President of the Physical Society
  of Serbia
• Seven physicist from SRM will apply for
• participation.
• Journalist from SRM are informed and
• stimulated to register.

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An international exhibition PHYSICS AS A
CULTURAL HERITAGE Station Of forces and fields 
from Oersted to power plants Museum of Science
and Technology, Belgrade Tesla Museum, Belgrade
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PHYSICS ENLIGHTENS THE WORLD There exist
interest for participation in this event. But,
there is a lack of ideas, information and
understanding about concrete realization.
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• Physics talent search
• group 4., 5. and 6. grade of the elementary
  scool
• ( students aged 10-12)
• 2. group 7. and 8. grade of the elementary
  school (students aged 13-14)
• 3. group 1. and 2. grade of the secondary school
  (students aged 15-16)
• 4. group 3. and 4. grade of the secondary school
  
• ( students aged 17-18).
• Rules for collecting points will be established
  soon.
• The rules will include writing essay in
  physics, performing experiment, participation in
  Physics competitions (national and
  international), participation in Petnica Science
  center and other centers activities,
  participation in the International educational
  projects...
• Branislav Cvetkovic
• Chairman of the National Physics Talent Search
  Commitee of SRM

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YOUNGPHYSICIST 96Journal for
student of primary and secondary schools
Publisher Physical
Society of Serbia
School year 2004/05
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NATIONAL ACTIVITIES IN SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO

• EINSTEINs THOUGHT Conference to be organized
  by the Institute of Physics, Belgrade
• PUBLIC LECTURES in RELATIVITY, PHOTONICS and
  STOCHASTICITY,
• KOLARCEV NARODNI UNIVERZITET (KOLARCEV
  PEOPLE UNIVERSITY) Dragan Popovic
  popovic_at_phy.bg.ac.yu
• CALL for REWORD articles on topics in
  SCIENCE and SOCIETY
• Zvonko Maric, academician maric_at_phy.bg.ac.yu
  
• PHYSICS QUESTIONS and ANSWERS on the special WEB
  site of PhSS
• Suported by UNESCO , Ilija Savic
  isavic_at_phy.bg.ac.yu
• ECO PHYSICS, Dragan Markuev markushev_at_phy.bg.ac.y
  u
• LA MAINE a la PATE, Stevan Jokic
  sjokic_at_vin.bg.ac.yu
• MEMORY ROOM of Albert Einstein and Mileva
  Maric-Einstein
• in Novi Sad, Renovation of an old
  initiative
• EXHIBITION World celebration of Einsteins
  year, Museum of Science and Technology

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EINSTEINs THOUGHT Conference The presence of
EINSTEINs THOUGHT in modern physics, technology,
culture and society Organizer Institute of
Physics,iBelgrade. The Conference lectures will
be delivered later in various University towns in
SRM. The topics will include The strange
photon and quantum informatics Chance and
determinism in physics and biology From
Einstein's gedanken to real experiments on
gravitation, matter and light Challenging,
questioning, verifying and understanding
Einsteins thoughts The search for gravitational
waves The relativity and Global positioning
system The biography of the Equation E mc2
Physics and society yesterday, today and
tomorrow On the discussion about Einstein-Maric
collaboration . EInsteins book My view of
the world as a guide .
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Exhibition in Belgrade, by the end of 2005.
World celebration of Einsteins year The
exhibition will consists of photographs, posters,
information, publications, items, videos about
the celebration of Einsteins miraculous year,
collected and shared with national physical
societies, scientific and educational
organizations and individuals.
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LA MAINE a la PATE

• Several books were translated from french to serb
  language and published by the Physical Society of
  Serbia. New book will be published during 2005.
• The programme is supported by the French MInistry
  of Education, the MInistry of Education of
  Serbia and the Pysical Society of Serbia. It
  becomes more and more popular among primary and
  secondary school teachers.

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• ECO PHYSICS in secondary school education
• Radon measurements and analysis with alpha-
• track (AT) detection
• Traffic noise (TN) measurement
• Air pollution measurements
• Measurements of physical and chemical (PC)
• parameters of water
• Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Faculty of
  Physics, Belgrade, Faculty of Natural Sciences,
  Ni, Department of Physics Novi Sad will
  participate in the analysis and discussions of
  the obtained results.

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Open day and public lectures Public lectures,
exhibitions and documentary movies presentations
will be organized The focus will be on the
interdisciplinary features and capabilities of
physics in solving three crucial problems of
modern world energy production, environmental
protection and public health One day during 2005
all Physics Institutes and Physics Faculties in
Serbia and Montenegro will be open to public from
10 am to 4 pm. Scientists and professors will
explain to public their research work and its
relevance to the society. We expect that media
will register this event and give time and space
to scientists.
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MEMORY ROOM of Albert Einstein and Mileva
Maric-Einstein in Novi Sad Renovation of an old
initiativeAccording to the new book of Djordje
Krstic this was also a wish of Einsteins sun
Hans-Albert.
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New book of Djordje Krstic published in Slovenia
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Theatre performance based on The Love letters
is in preparation by the Studio Children smile
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Stamp with the WYP2005 logo will be issued by
Jugoslovenska pota, telefon, telegraf.
PTT Yugoslav poste, telephon, telegraph PTT
invited us to write and article about WYP for
the journal Telekomunikacije
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Politika, 25 july 2004United Nations declared
the International Year of Physics 2005 IN HONOUR
OF EINSTEIN
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Newspaper Politika, 1 October 2004.PHYSCISTS
from SERBIA went to visit CERN in SWITZERLANDOUR
CHILDREN IN A VISIT OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS
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OUR YOUNG PHYSICIST will be READY for the
WYP2005wrote Politikas journalist