Category: Resources
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3D-Printable Mystery Boxes
“Mystery boxes are a great tool to practice scientific reasoning skills and introduce students to the power of scientific models. Students develop hypotheses about the internal structure of a mystery box and come up with ideas on how to test their hypotheses. They also learn about the difference between observation and inference. Below, we present…
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Cosmos para o Ensino Básico
The book brings a language aimed at the young audience with a bit of humor, and super illustrated. The book deals with some mysteries, interesting stories and important concepts for lovers of the universe. Braille version also linked below.
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De quoi est fait l’Univers ?
Author: Letizia Diamante Primary and Middle school English and French
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The LHC and the Higgs Boson (but its early in the game)
Buried 100m below the French / Swiss countryside, between the Alps and the Jura Mountains, is a 27km tunnel housing the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. This chain of superconducting magnets accelerates protons to high energies and then collides them in four different underground halls. Inside these halls are enormous, highly complex particle detectors, each…
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3D-printable Quark Puzzle
Quarks are fundamental particles in the Standard Model of particle physics. They make up the protons and neutrons that we are familiar with, but also a zoo of other more exotic particle systems like pions and kaons. Quarks have never been isolated; they always form groups of two or three. But what are the rules…
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3D-Printable Quadrupole Ion Trap
Quadrupole ion traps can be used to trap electrically charged particles. At CERN, the GBAR experiment at the antimatter factory uses this particle trap to store anti-hydrogen-ions. Below you can find building instruction for 3D-printable quadrupole ion trap capable of trapping electrically charged “macroscopic particles” such as cinnamon of lycopodium spores. The trap uses an…
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Teaching the Standard Model with charges and interactions
This article is part of the proceedings of the GIREP-MPTL conference 2018. It describes the key ideas and argumentation steps of the teaching approach developed by Netzwerk Teilchenwelt for the introduction of the base concepts of the Standard Model of particle physics, namely charges, interactions and particles. This approach is the basis for the four-volume…
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Passeport pour les deux infinis / Passport to the two infinites
This book is a cornerstone of a French outreach initiative in particle physics, cosmology and astrophysics. The book is a reversible book, edited by a team of seven people and based on contributions from more than 50 people from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) , the Commissariat à l’énergie atomique (CEA), and…
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Science Journal – Élémentaire – No. 1: de latome
This is number 1 of a series of 8 journals. No. 1 published in Spring 2005. Complete title of journal is “Élémentaire – de linfiniment petit à linfiniment grand.” (“Elementary”) is an outreach journal in French whose eight issues cover the particle physics, from the atom to the discoveries expected at the CERN Large Hadron…
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Science Journal – Élémentaire – No. 2: le neutron
This is number 2 of a series of 8 journals. No.2 published in Automn 2005. Complete title of journal is “Élémentaire – de linfiniment petit à linfiniment grand.” Élémentaire (“Elementary”) is an outreach journal in French whose eight issues cover the particle physics, from the atom to the discoveries expected at the CERN Large Hadron…