In Xunwu County, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, there are such a group of children who can get in touch with science and technology at "zero distance" in school and fly their innovative wings;
There is also such a teacher who combines theory with practice, imparting scientific knowledge in the classroom and caring for children’s scientific dream in the mountains … …
Physics teacher as "curator"
Huang Caifa is a physics teacher of Xunwu Middle School in Xunwu County, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, deputy director of the school’s scientific research department and director of the science and technology center, and a backbone teacher of physics in Ganzhou City.
In order to let the concept of science and technology take root among students, in 2015, a science and technology museum of a rural middle school landed in Xunwu Middle School. As the founder, Huang Caifa also served as the "curator" and worked hard on this voluntary work as a career.
According to the actual education and teaching in the school, he took "building the Science and Technology Museum of Xunwu Middle School into a popular science education base loved by teachers and students" as the goal, and established the Science and Technology Museum as the purpose of "exciting interest, experiencing, improving and innovating", and built a good platform for teachers and students of Xunwu Middle School to get in touch with science and technology at zero distance.
Huang Caifa also organized a science and technology group in Xunwu Middle School. The members of the group gave full play to their respective advantages and worked together to make the science and technology group an important organization to strengthen science and technology education in the school.
In order to strengthen contact and communication with students and give timely feedback on the effect of popular science work, he also creatively set up science and technology interest groups in each class to guide students to actively participate in science and technology activities.
The children’s eyes lit up. What was quietly changing in this small county that was still struggling with poverty at that time.
Xunwu Middle School has set off an unprecedented upsurge in physics learning, and the results of various competitions have blossomed. Graduates have successively passed the Tsinghua of Peking University and pursued their dreams in higher institutions.
Open the door of science and sow the seeds of dreams.
In view of the problems that the facilities of the science and technology museum in rural middle schools can’t be updated in time and the limited number of exhibits can’t meet the growing demand for scientific and technological knowledge of students, Huang Caifa explored seven new contents of scientific and technological education activities suitable for the characteristics of the science and technology museum in rural middle schools:
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Let students give popular science lessons to parents.
In view of the current phenomenon that some people illegally use electric fish, he asked students to give parents relevant popular science classes in the county youth activity center to show the safety hidden dangers of simple electric fish tools and their harm to the ecological balance, and achieved good publicity results.
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Hold a thematic photography exhibition
Led by Huang Caifa, the school and Xunwu County Photography Association jointly launched a photo exhibition with the theme of "protecting the source of Dongjiang River and creating green and seeking Wu", which not only aroused people’s awareness of environmental protection, but also raised their awareness of the importance of green mountains and green rivers.
three
Conduct lectures and publicity activities on traffic safety travel knowledge.
In view of the fact that there are many electric vehicles in Xunwu County and people’s awareness of traffic safety is not strong, the school cooperated with the county traffic police brigade to carry out traffic safety travel knowledge lectures and publicity activities in the north square of the county, and achieved good results.
Since then, the phenomenon of students riding electric cars to school has been effectively curbed.
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R&D and promotion of children’s enlightenment related content
Huang Caifa promoted the cooperation between the school and Little Newton, an educational institution for children’s scientific enlightenment, helped to develop and promote enlightenment courses, products and activities for children, and extended popular science education to children.
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Build five more rural middle school science and technology museums
With the help of Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China and China Science and Technology Museum Development Fund, Xunwu County has built five rural middle school science and technology museums. Huang Caifa used holidays to go to various science and technology museums in a planned way to guide their activities.
It is particularly worth mentioning that Huang Caifa also helped Chengjiang Middle School successfully declare the "2019 Science and Technology Museum in Action" activity, which expanded the influence of popular science activities.
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Science and Technology Museum Open Day "Experiencing Science"
In the "Experience Science" activity of Xunwu Middle School Science and Technology Museum Open Day in 2018, on the one hand, Huang Caifa organized students to actively participate in the Xunwu County exhibition tour of China Mobile Science and Technology Museum and go to the Dongjiangyuan venue to experience science;
On the other hand, in the open day of Xunwu Middle School Science and Technology Museum held for the teachers and students of the whole school, Huang Caifa arranged the teachers and students of the school to participate in the activities in an orderly manner. At the same time, he also invited the parents of the students to participate in it, so that the teachers, students and parents could receive science education and participate in science popularization activities at close range.
It’s not enough to experience the exhibits. There are many activities such as popular science handwritten blackboard newspaper appraisal activities, robot assembly competitions and drone flight test experience, which enrich students’ spare time.
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Poverty alleviation does not forget popular science education
The Science and Technology Museum not only benefited the students of Xunwu Middle School, but also sent it to a more remote village.
In the field, it is difficult to walk by car, so he rides a motorcycle for an hour or two, carrying robots, kongmingsuo, small drones, popular science books and so on down to the countryside to spread scientific knowledge for farmers’ children and stimulate their interest in science.
Although the activities of the Science and Technology Museum in Xunwu Middle School are still in the primary stage of exploration and experience, with the efforts of Huang Caifa, good results have been achieved in science and technology aid and popular science:
Students’ interest in science has increased, their enthusiasm and initiative in learning have been enhanced, and the results of academic competitions have steadily increased, and the flowers of popular science have begun to bloom in the surrounding towns … …
Hard work has brought fruitful results.
In 2017 and 2018, as a volunteer of China Science and Technology Museum Development Foundation, Huang Caifa actively participated in the training course for science and technology teachers of rural middle school science and technology museums organized by the Science Department of China Association for Science and Technology and China Science and Technology Museum Development Foundation, and strived to improve his scientific and technological literacy.
Under his hard work, in 2017, Xunwu Middle School Science and Technology Museum was rated as an excellent rural middle school science and technology museum; In the National Science Popularization Day in 2018, the "Puzzle and Interesting Robot Assembly Competition" organized by him was warmly received and won the "Best Activity Award".
I am a country baby myself,
I deeply understand children.
Curiosity and desire for science,
I would like to be a place where they can.
A bridge to the hall of science and technology.
Huang Caifa’s passion for science is rooted in the ordinary, the mountains and the children’s dreams of science.
In him, although there are no earth-shattering deeds, we have seen an ordinary physics teacher’s devotion to education and dedication.
Learn to be true and be sincere, and Huang Caifa will continue to be the bridge between children and the science and technology hall!
