LEARNING DOESN'T STOP THERE

One of the reasons why student fail to learn a specific topic or subject is due to the lack of instructional materials the teacher uses or the school itself fails to provide especially in teaching science subjects. Being a physics teacher, how are you going to address those common problems happening most in every schools today? With the advent of technology, how are you going to integrate technology in teaching and learning process when instructional materials are not readily available especially those learners lived in rural areas still not acquainted with technology?
Learning physics doesn’t necessarily need a very expensive materials or high technology equipment before the students could learn. Sometimes, it depends on the teacher’s innovation on how he/she going to teach the topic not looking on the unavailability of materials but focusing on what could be possibly made out of what is already there.
I remember one of my physics instructors, before she starts her class she said that we’ll be playing a game. She brought one bottle, a circle-like-form out of plastic gallon, and a piece of chalk. She positioned the bottle first, and put the circle on the bottle’s mouth and then the chalk on the top. She said that whoever puts the chalk inside the bottle by just only applying force on the circle-like-form will have additional points. We were having fun playing the game but it takes a minute for us to figure it out the exact place where the force must be applied. We won the game having one of our teammate successfully did it. Surprisingly, she then told us that to get a piece of paper letting us identify and explain the three laws of motion based on the activity we had.
It really depends upon the teacher on how he/she going to deliver the topic well to his/her students by the use of existing instructional materials. Integrating technology in learning isn’t bad, but the problem is we don’t have enough equipment and instructional materials when it comes to technology. Learning must not stop there. As a 21^st century teacher, we must be innovative enough to create instructional materials out of what is already available. We may lack in high technology learning resources but learning doesn’t stop there. We must not limit the learning that our students could have with the materials we don’t have. Let us start on the things that we already have, and make the best out of it.
See videos below for low cost physics experiment examples that could be used as an instructional materials for physics teachers in school.