Implementation of HiSPARC in the School Project in progress

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Implementation of HiSPARC in the SchoolProject
in progress
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Overview

• Position of HighSchool Projects in HiSPARC
• Achievements in the last 2 years
• Project Junior High School
• Senior High School Physics
• Introduction HiSPARC (supporting material)
• Curriculum development
• New Subject!
• Webbased teaching material
• Practical assignments
• Master piece (real science)
• Senior High School Knowledge of Science
• Astronomy
• Annual Symposium
• Students
• Teachers
• The use of a Virtual Learning Environment
• The future

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Position of HighSchool Projects in HiSPARC

• Gaining scientific results
• Teaching how to do research
• Teaching modern Physics issues
• Attracting bachelor students

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Achievements in the last 2 years

• 2005
• How to
• reach studens?
• motivate them?
• prepare them?
• assess them?
• A question is how to
• guarantee continuity
• gain momentum
• attract bachelor students
• Strategies
• focus on a few students
• creating broad support

Finally some concrete results
but
Still a long way to go
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The Dutch Educational System
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Project Junior High School

• Multi-discipline (physics, maths, biology and
  geography)
• 10 hours
• Information about Radiation
• Practical Assignments
• Presentations of the PA to the group
• VLE or textbase

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Project Junior High School
Subjects for the PA
Electromagnetic spectrum Medical applications of Radiation
What does the atmosphere do with incoming radiation? Northern lights
Map of the universe, or where does the cosmic radiation come from? Your cellular phone, GSM and UMTS-masts
Photosynthesis influence of light on plants How can we observe Cosmic Rays?
Cosmic Rays and organisms
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Senior High ScoolSupporting material

• StoryTelling
• example reliability of the measurements of Hess
  and Kolhörster
• American Materialexample PP on Statistics,
  Energy Spectrum, History

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New National Curriculum 2010
New didactics New contexts New
subjects Physics for the 21th century
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Inspiration
Curriculum Development

• Material from foreign countries, with experiences
  of users,
• Experiences from our own country
• Experiences with our own pilots

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Curriculum Development
HiSPARCNIKHEF
A Pilot for the Subatomair Physics
Subjects Context
Why research on Cosmic rays? The Universe Big Bang From air shower to Cloud Chamber interactions Emc2 Particle Zoo Standard Model Detection Techniques Accelerators Cosmic rays
Why research on Cosmic rays? The Universe Big Bang From air shower to Cloud Chamber interactions Emc2 Particle Zoo Standard Model Detection Techniques Accelerators Accelerators
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New Subject Nature Live and Technology
integrated science modular constructed for the
real scientist?
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Involvement of HiSPARC

• Star information and processes
• The beginning and the evolution of the Universe
• Cosmic rays
• Exoplanets, Exobiology
• Black Holes
• Signals from Space
• Modern detection

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Webbased teaching material
Traditional course about Cosmic Rays

• Target group
• Teachers
• Good Students

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Webbased teaching material
Applet-based and interactive course
Target group Senior High School
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Webbased teaching material
Applet-based and interactive course

• Properties
• Applets
• Stand alone
• Network
• Web

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Webbased teaching material
Applet-based and interactive course
Logbook Monitoring
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Webbased teaching material
Website on Earth Magnetisme
Target group Senior High School
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Practical Assignments

• Practical Assignments
• for all Physics Students
• max of 10 hours of work
• real experimental work
• quality is important

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Practical AssignmentsNijmegen
Beginning Senior High School
Lesson 3 Make choices Make an inventory of the
open questions Give sources Allow students to
choose between different experiments
or between different theoretical subjects
Make teams
Lessons 1-2 Attract the attention Surprise the
students Make them curious Make them
enthusiastic Provide information Formulate open
questions
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Practical AssignmentsNijmegen
Preparation for Master Piece
Lessons 4-6 Research Introduction to a real experiment (HiSPARC Development of research skills Les 7-8 Preparation of the Presentation. How do I tell my fellow students? Les 9-10 The presentation Transfer of knowledge Critical attitude
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Practical Assignments Hermann Wesseling College

• Beneficial and harmful effects of radiation.
• Interview of a specialist (VU-Petten)
• Effects of radiation .
• Radiation in aviation and space travel

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Master Piece (real science)

• Contructing a detector
• Calibrating and maintaining a detector
• Experiments with the detector
• (Symposium)
• Theoretical subjects

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Master Piece (science)

• Data analyse
• Rain project
• Poisson distribution and data
• Contributions to scientific publications
• see also the lectures of Ilka and Bob

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What HiSparc might do
Zatsepin Effect
Look for simultaneous showers in different cities
r few 100 km scale of the Netherlands
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Senior High School Knowledge of ScienceAstronomy
and Cosmic Rays
Virtual Learning Environment course
See later
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Annual Symposium
Het Amsterdams Lyceum 2004 St Michael College
2005 RU Nijmegen 2005 Damstede 2006
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Annual Symposium

• Between 200 and 300 Students
• Program
• Lectures by Specialists
• Powerpoint Presentations by Students
• Poster Presentations
• Informal contacts
• FUN..

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First Annual Symposium for Teachers
New22 September 2006.

• Program
• Lectures about
• Data
• Detectors
• Astroparticle Physics
• Hands-on
• Detector
• VLE

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The use of a Virtual Learning Environment A new
way of communication
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The use of a Virtual Learning Environment A new
way of communication
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The use of a Virtual Learning Environment A new
way of communication
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The future

• More attention for Science on Cosmic Rays
• Collaboration between the different projects
• International Student Symposium in 2007?
• How to share? or The problem of the language

?