Tag: Games
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How to Accelerate particles
This exercise in an introduction to particle accelerators and high energy physics. The students play a game in which they have to apply what they’ve learned in a ‘virtual accelerator’.
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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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De quoi est fait l’Univers ?
Author: Letizia Diamante Primary and Middle school English and French
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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 Scattering Experiment
Scattering experiments (e.g. the gold foil experiment) are important research tools of nuclear and particle physics. They help us to study interactions between particles and to obtain information about the structure of matter. Below, we present activities using a mechanical 3D-printable scattering experiment. The activities include different difficulty levels, in which high-school students can study…
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Particle Builder Board Game
Particle builder is a particle physics board game developed by Lachlan McGinness, HarriLeinonen and Rowan McGinness. The game is designed to familiarise students (aged 16-18 years) in groups of 2-3 players with the elementary particles in the standard model. The game involves playing cards which represent elementary particles and comparing the properties of these elementary…
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Conservation of momentum in particle collisions
Students will determine the total momentum from all particles tracked after a particle collision and they will calculate the missing momentum(magnitude & direction). Exercise of kinematics in particle physics
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SPRACE Game
The game teaches students particle physics concepts not addressed by the curriculum of many Brazilian schools, such as quarks, leptons and other subatomic particles.
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SPRACE Game
The game teaches students particle physics concepts not addressed by the curriculum of many Brazilian schools, such as quarks, leptons and other subatomic particles