Chaos Physics in High School – Challenges in Multimedia Application

Abstract

Abstract Besides being an active field of research, chaotic phenomena are also encountered in our everyday life, thus it’s worth discussing them also in formal education in public schools. This paper presents the authors’ experiences in teaching chaos on secondary level. A teaching module that encompasses mechanics lab experiments and numerical simulations of typical chaotic systems have been implemented and evaluated. The module offers a number of multimedia applications whose availability in teacher education is also discussed.