Tag: Upper secondary school level
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Cosmic Ray e-Lab
Various activities for student understanding
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Study data from the LHC
This exercise explains the basics of the standard model of particle physics and particle collisions. It explains what muons are and how their angles can be measured through the use of the HYPATIA event display or the CMS iSpy.
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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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Study Cosmic Rays
This scenario explains what cosmic rays are and how they interact with the earth’s atmosphere.It explains how time dilation works and how the students can use real data from cosmic ray detectors installed at schools all over the world to make their own plots.
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GREAT CHALLENGES OF KNOWLEDGE / II CIEMAT Science Week Conference
Within the II Jornadas Científicas organised by CIEMAT (Madrid, Spain) on the occasion of Science Week 2020, lectures on the fundamental structure of matter, on dark matter and on the Cosmos, bringing together research from the very small to the very large
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A Question of Survival: Why We Hunted the Higgs (TEDxTUM)
This presentation was given at TEDxTUM 2015 in front of a large public audience and was recorded and published on the TEDxTUM site, as well as on their YouTube channel. It attempts to answer the question of why we do basic research by describing it as a necessary facet of human survival.
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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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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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Experience CERN 360: a web documentary
The “Experience CERN 360” web documentary (http://experience-cern360.fr) is a website in French developed by the CNRS, the CEA and the ExplorNova collaboration (CEA Irfu & iRélité/Capacités SAS) for the CERN 60th anniversary in 2014. 10 entry points marked by white icons on an aerial picture of the CERN area (with the main elements of the…