Making Things, Doing Science - by Arvind Gupta

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Speaker - Arvind Gupta (Children’s Science Center, IUCAA - former)
This Kaapi with Kuriosity Public Talk was filmed on August 19th, 2018 at the J N Planetarium (Bengaluru).

Abstract of the talk:-
Before children can understand anything, they need experience: seeing, touching, hearing, tasting, smelling, choosing, arranging, putting things together, taking things apart. Children need to experiment with real things available in their milieu. For close to 40 years Arvind Gupta has designed science teaching aids to make science fun for children. They include simple pumps, electric motors, and generators. Children love toys which spin, fly, move and make a sound. These toys are made with simple materials often with discarded stuff – old plastic bottles, tetrapaks, newspapers, straws, old pens e tc. This lecture-demonstration will show the possibilities of using simple things to make science fun so that the poorest children in the world can use them.

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Table of Contents (powered by https://videoken.com)
0:00:00 Activities of the Planetarium
0:02:23 ICTS
0:06:43 Introduction to Speaker
0:08:17 Making Things, Doing Science - by Arvind Gupta
0:14:02 Somatic Models - TFI
0:19:47 Electric Motor
0:22:55 Toys from Magnets - New Dynam
0:32:35 Amazing paper toys
0:37:14 Toys from Straw - 31 Different Pumps
0:43:06 Toys from VSO Science Teacher
0:47:47 Toy from pvc pipe
0:48:58 Ring Magnets
0:52:00 Paper Toys
0:56:56 How do you balance a dozen nails?
0:58:43 Toys for School Purposes
1:04:59 Toys using Tetra pack - 60 toys
1:06:42 Toys using Bicycle bolt nuts
1:08:08 Capacity of Lung - Experiment
1:12:53 Drawing slate - Gift to Humanity
1:16:04 1500 Toys - Few Samples
1:23:45 Caps from Newspapers
1:28:50 Q/A
1:31:59 Your Motivation to Start
1:34:41 Pencil and the Cardboard - How did it work?
1:35:20 Are their efforts that are going in travels?
1:38:24 Making money by selling toys?
1:40:11 Can you make a alternate of it?
1:41:27 How can rural kids improve in science aspects?
1:43:33 Keeping child away from cell phone
1:46:23 How do we bring back the curiosity of science?
1:48:03 Origami in Maths Models
1:48:36 Was there any particular reason moving to Pune?
1:50:38 Wrap Up