Simple experiments with unexpected answers by the physician Takis Lazos
About light and sound
How do we perceive colors? How are colors created on a mobile screen? Am I not seeing colors at the edges of my field of vision? What is color vision deficiency? How can transparent objects acquire striking colors and what does this mean?
Do you dare to predict? Simple experiments with unexpected results
Series of experiments in which the participants are asked to predict the -usually unexpected- result. The important thing is not so much whether the prediction turns out to be correct, but the discussion that will follow and the attempt to explain the phenomena.
Panagiotis (Takis) Lazos is a physics teacher in secondary education since 2004 and head of the Laboratory Center for Natural Sciences of Ilioupoli since 2019. He has also a BC in Photography and Audiovisual Arts, a MS in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology and a doctorate from the Primary Education Department of the University of Athens.
Among his research interests are the history of physics and especially scientific instruments, the use of smart phones and open platforms like Arduino in the school science laboratory, and the design of original educational experiments. He is also the scientific project manager at the Greek Archive of Scientific Instruments (www.hasi.gr).
He has written many papers in Greek and international journals, chapters in collective volumes, a catalog of the scientific instruments of the Museum of History of the University of Athens and the monograph "Scientific instruments and experimental teaching of natural sciences at the Theological School of Halki".
