Should we learn Physics from grade 6?

An interesting Physics lesson with teacher Mai Van Tuc. Photo: Internet

Before teaching Physics for 6th grade, hearing parents talk about their children's negative learning results and feedback on Physics, I and most of my colleagues teaching in high school had the opinion that the curriculum and age were not suitable for learning Physics.

After a year of teaching Physics to 4 6th grade classes, carefully studying the program and working directly with many students, my perspective has completely changed.

Physics knowledge in grade 6 is very practical, helping students apply it in daily life. Photo: Internet

Regarding the age to acquire knowledge of the subject, during the teaching process, I found that, in the first class, when talking about the purpose and object of Physics as well as the history of great discoveries and the achievements it brought to human civilization, most of the students were excited and loved the subject. During the teaching process, there were many questions, the questions that the students raised were really surprising and the answers when the teacher asked were really admirable.

In fact, many of the students' counter-questions have made teachers confused. For example, after teaching the content about the results when an object is subjected to a force: "When an object is subjected to a force, either that object changes its motion or is deformed...", I asked the students to give real-life examples to illustrate.

Mr. Mai Van Tuc instructs students at Edison Physics Laboratory Center.

A student raised his hand and said: "It seems like I just learned the theory wrong, teacher." He argued, at home, I just raised my hand, but the dog ran away without touching it, what should I do? What a lovely question, making the classroom atmosphere more interesting and also requiring good pedagogical skills to handle this situation best!

In practice, the process of teaching and learning Physics in grade 6, I see that: To achieve the best learning results, secondary schools should arrange the best teachers for Physics in grade 6. Regarding the Physics 6 program, in my opinion, it is very scientific and practical (no need for reform, should innovate teaching methods so that students practice more and textbooks and workbooks should correct mistakes and lack of reality, add practical connections).

Through this article, I would like to share with teachers, parents in general and Physics 6 teachers in particular some of my views on the program as well as the 6th grade students. I hope this is also a somewhat meaningful information for professional management staff of secondary schools.

This is my feeling after a year of directly teaching Physics 6, just my subjective thoughts, I look forward to receiving comments from colleagues and parents so that we can improve together and serve better and better in the career of educating people.