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October 9, 2025Open Access

The gravity of imagination

Key Points

Engaging students in oral discussions improves their understanding of physical quantities and geometric relationships.
Using measuring instruments, students explore relationships like area and distance, facilitating hands-on learning.
Aimed at developing a repeatable methodology, this lesson fosters students' abilities to find relevant results.
The interactive and game-based approach encourages collaboration, enhancing the educational experience in high school.

Abstract

Abstract This paper discusses some experiences carried out in an Italian high school with third year students (around 14 years old). Each phase of the proposed lesson is used to introduce an oral discussion within the class; the images, words and games used are all aimed at stimulating debate among the students. The practical part of the lesson is used to look for the relationship between physical quantities and their values; in this part, measuring instruments play a central role in guiding the students to find the proportionality between geometric parameters (such as area, distance, orientation, etc). The goal will never be to find ‘the right relationship between the physical quantities involved in the experiment’, but rather to find a correct and repeatedly applicable methodology for working and finding results.

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