Category: Type:Hands on Activities
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Arts & science across Italy: from high-schools to CERN
The main idea is to engage high school students with science using artistic languages, regardless of students’ specific skills or level of knowledge. The project begins with an educational phase and is followed by an arts-based competition between teams of students.
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INFN Outreach Cosmic Ray Activities (OCRA)
The INFN Outreach Cosmic Ray Activities (OCRA) project involves 24 divisions of the Institute all over Italy and offers activities for both students and teachers. The International Cosmic Day – ICD, organized by DESY, is one of the OCRA activities common to all local groups and consists in inviting high school students to carry out…
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Quark puzzle
ark puzzle is a novel approach to visualizing the color symmetries of quarks with a set of 3D printable pieces. Each piece is labelled with a quark type, electric charge and colour charge, and has joints that allow it to connect to other quark pieces. These can be used to discover the rules of the…
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Quantum Outreach @ FNAL Lederman Science Center
Quantum Information Science (QIS) materials are usually for advanced students, leaving out most students. To address this issue, Fermilab developed Portable Exhibits for classrooms with hands-on activities for the students. They also developed permanent exhibits at the Lederman Science Center with activities and explanation.
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The ATLAS4Teachers open data app
The ATLAS outreach and open data group developed a new workshop based on the Knowledge Gap Theory: making it easier for people to find knowledge can make a significant difference.
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Quarknet Cosmic Rays activities
Quarknet is involved in multiple cosmic rays activities through long-term collaboration with high school teachers and scientists. They participate in the International Muon Week, in which paired schools collect and analyze data and share results. QuarkNet is also hosting a Muography projet to search for hidden chambers at Chichen Itza (Mexico).
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Muon Detectives and HERA: Muon Research Opportunities for Australian Secondary Students
Muon Detectives is a collaborative project studying high-altitude muons. It makes use of EduMOD Classroom Muon Detectors to teach students about concepts ranging from special relativity to statistics. The HERA project is an international collaboration in which each participating team, consisting of a mentoring university and a high school, will launch high-altitude balloons equipped with…
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The “Fun-Q” muography project
Fun-Q is a high school students project of muography (muon tomography) of Japanese ancient mounds (Ko-Fun古墳) using Cosmic ray detector OSECHI (Outreach & Science Education Cosmic-ray Hunting Instrument). The collaborative project at the interface between education, physics and archaeology, promotes students’ understanding of interdisciplinarity and respect for different fields.
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LHC: connect the dots! A simple outreach activity to explain how particle detectors work
Participants receive a sheet of paper showing a simplified event occurring within a typical particle detector. Their task is to reconstruct the tracks of particles by drawing them on paper and analyzing the event. Six differents events are available in multiple difficulty level.
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Building wire chambers during national teachers programmes in Budapest and CERN@Wigner
Since 2016, the Hungarian CERN teacher program hold two-evening workshops on constructing Multiwire Proportional Chambers. Due to its success, the workshop was made available to students. It is a good exercice that fosters team building and cooperation.