Three-day residential workshop for science teachers of government and private schools of Nagaland was successfully held from March 19 to 21 at the premises of the Development Association of Nagaland (DAN) Dimapur.
The workshop was organized by the Nagaland Institute of Health, Environment & Social Welfare, Kohima with support from Vigyan Prasar, department of Science & Technology, government of India, Noida (UP).
Resource person at the workshop was renowned science activist from Presidency University, Kolkata, Dr. B. N. Das. The septuagenarian mesmerized the participants with his astonishing magic like demonstrations on the principles, laws and theories of light, magnetism, electricity etc using cheap, easily and locally available materials.
He told the teachers that experimental demonstrations helped students to understand theories that were difficult to explain verbally.
During the feedback session, the teachers stated that it was the most interesting and educative workshop they had ever attended and requested the organizers to conduct similar workshops in the future too. Vigyan Prasar also supplied demonstration kits free of cost to all the participants to help them conduct similar demonstrations in their schools.