The Keppe and Pacheco Trilogical College (FATRI) held a Science Workshop for Children (aged 5 to 12) last 8th of June, 2019, at 9 o’clock. Its objective was to demonstrate in a comprehensible way for the age how the phenomenon of resonance, studied in Physics, happens. The college’s social action project occurred within the 1st FATRI Environment Week, with great results, being flagrant the interest and enthusiasm of children for science when it is explained in a practical way.
The duration of the workshop, scheduled for one hour (from 9am to 10am), lasted from 9:30 to 11:15, because the children liked it so much that they wanted to stay and get to know more. The activity took place at the headquarters of FATRI in Cambuquira-MG, and was related to the Undergraduate Course in Environmental Management.
The experiment was conducted by teacher Monica Silveira Magalhães, with the help of three students from FATRI’s Undergraduate Course in Environmental Management: Amanda Pompeu do Val Ramos, Gustavo Henrique Veronez Finarde and Lohaynne de Assis Souza.
Eleven children participated, with support from the Secretariat of Education and the Municipal Government Office of Cambuquira, the Raúl Sá Municipal School, the Maria Umbelina de Andrade Gomes State School and the Clóvis Salgado State School.
Initially, in the theoretical part, a power point on the Phenomenon of Resonance in Physics was shown. The practical part consisted in the elaboration of a simple model of experimentation of resonance, made with a string, extended like a clothesline, having four pendulums consisting of a piece of string with bolt nuts in their extremities as weights. Of these pendulums, two had the same length. The resonance phenomenon was demonstrated in the pendulums of same length – by manually oscillating one of them, the children could observe that the other one, of same length (same frequency), alternately oscillated, while those of different lengths remained still.
The goal, which was fully achieved, was to awaken in children the scientific spirit of observation and experimentation.