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Contents 1 Center for innovative physics teaching in Uganda 1.1 Motivation for our work 1.2 What we want: 1.3 How we work: 1.4 Guidelines for our work:

Center for innovative physics teaching in Uganda

Motivation for our work

Below are some of our reasons for this project:-

• Lack of suitable physics text book materials suited to the African context.
• Few or absence of student activity packs for given topics.
• Limited physics teacher collaboration.
• Failure by physics teachers to relate class work to reality.
• Limited effort by teachers to involve students in a way that fosters creativity and innovative scientific thinking other than mere recall.

What we want:

We want to contribute to an innovation way, school physics is being taught in Uganda.

• Building an on-line community for physics teachers at secondary level
• Creating content in school physics that is suited for
• the African context
• stimulating scientific thinking
• stimulating practical(Hands-on) activities and projects.

How we work:

• We try to include, not to exclude
• We work with our students, not without them
• we enjoy humor, lightness and like to play in order to become creative
• we write in English and Luganda, one of the main languages in Uganda

Guidelines for our work:

We want to create content that is based on the everyday experience of African students, be it technology or nature.

We begin where our students already are and lead them to a discovery and development of their own capacities.

We try to minimize theoretical teachings and foster practical activities.

We use lab materials that are locally available

• from nature
• from local shops

We use the computer and the internet as medium of distribution, print copies can be drawn if needed.

Our platform is mainly WikiEducator by the Commonwealth of Learning CoL.

We are rooted in the community values of WikiEducator, such as

• free content: We use a CC-BY-SA license

We are working in an open process, everyone who likes to join us is welcome. We are a non-profit organization.

We try to get financial support from donor agencies.

We pursue only educational purposes.

Examples of content:

• the rainbow
• the diesel motor
• gears
• water wheels
• motions of African animals
• energy conservation in cooking
• solar heaters
• Uganda physics curriculum