Did you know that you can see your pulse? Take a small triangular strip of paper and fold it so that the pointed side is on top. Place the paper on top of your wrist and you can observe it pulsating. Let a friend or a relative count the pulse.
“You can make children do this. After taking their pulse once, you can make the child run fast and then again check his pulse,” explained S.P. Kulkarni, reader in zoology, Regional Institute of Education, Mysore.
He was explaining simple experiments for schoolchildren at a workshop conducted by the Vigyan Evam Pradyogic Sanchar Parishad of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India and coordinated by Ecoscience Research Foundation, here on Friday at the Science City.
Around 20 experts from various parts of the country took part in the three-day programme to develop simple, low-cost experiments in life sciences. D.K. Pandey, Scientist E, NCSTC, DST, New Delhi, said that similar experiments had already been prepared for physics and chemistry. “The effort is to make science interesting for children by using things that are easily available.”
He said that the Science Congress was being successfully implemented and that children who participated in the congress were good in academics as well.
Sultan Ahmad Ismail of the Ecoscience Research Foundation said that many children did not opt for science-related courses after Plus Two. “The students say they are not interested in science or they do not understand science. Teachers have to make it interesting.”
Published - December 12, 2009 02:37 pm IST
