Senior Correspondent.TOD.Balurghat
Students at Balurghat High School spent the day turning scientific theories from their textbooks into hands-on experiments at a science workshop aimed at encouraging curiosity, observation and practical learning.The workshop, titled “The Joy of Science — Do It Yourself, Learn It Yourself” and “Hands-on Science Workshop 2026,” was organised by Bigyan Darbar with support from Ujjiban Society. Students from Classes VI to IX took part in the programme.
The workshop sought to connect classroom science with everyday life by allowing students to conduct and observe experiments themselves. Demonstrations covered a wide range of topics, including energy transformation, friction, magnetic and mechanical energy, chemical energy, gravity and non-contact forces.Students were also introduced to practical methods of measuring length, area, time and volume. Experiments were used to explain concepts such as air pressure, Bernoulli’s principle, Newton’s laws of motion, inertia of rest and inertia of motion.
Other demonstrations focused on the poles of magnets, attraction and repulsion, magnetic induction, the effects of heat and the properties of light. Students observed a spectrum using a prism and learned how to determine the density of liquids.The workshop was conducted by science educator Jaydeb De, who explained scientific concepts in simple language and demonstrated the experiments before encouraging students to participate. The students took an active role, conducting experiments and asking questions throughout the programme.
School headmaster Srijit Saha, along with other teachers, attended the workshop and encouraged the participating students. Representatives of Ujjiban Society, including Suraj Das and Parimal Mahato, were also present.Students were also introduced to “Bigyan Anwesak,” a science magazine, as part of an effort to encourage regular reading and scientific observation beyond the classroom. They were urged to ask questions, examine everyday phenomena and approach them from a scientific perspective.
Organisers said the workshop was designed to ensure that science did not remain confined to textbook pages. They said opportunities to experiment, observe and question could help develop a stronger scientific outlook among students and indicated plans to expand similar initiatives in the future.The central message of the programme was simple: to learn science, students must ask questions; to understand it, they must experiment; and to truly appreciate it, they must be willing to get their own hands involved.
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