German Outreach Activities

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German Outreach Activities

• New Web pages
• Summer Academy Rostock
• Master Classes Bonn
• Particle Physics in Curriculum for
  16-year-olds in North Rhine Westfalia

• Michael KobelBonn UniversityOPAL, ATLAS, D0
  European Particle Physics Outreach Group Meeting,
  Geneva, 20.10.2001

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1.) German Outreach Web Pageshttp//www.physik.un
i-bonn.de/outreach

• First Version (nearly) finished, online since
  August( M.K., D.Schmitz, student teacher)
• Aim German Info-Center for
• HEP Physicists (e.g. Material for talks, open
  days, etc)
• High School Students (e.g.master classes)
• Students (e.g. teaching systems, lectures)
• Teachers (e.g. training)
• Journalists (e.g. news)
• Public (e.g. material, links)
• 2002 Merge into professional web management
  system
• Enables announcements of events or storage of
  material remotely by all HEP groups in Germany
• Examples (talks for schools, material, etc)

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2.) German Summer Academy

• Regularly 6 academies each summer, since 1994
• Organized by Verein Bildung und Begabung
  (Association for Education and
  Talents)
• Supported by
• BMBF (ministry of education)
• Stifterverband der dt Wissenschaft (German
  Science Foundation)
• First Particle Physics Course Rostock
  19.7.2001 4.8.2001 (16 days!)
• Participants Skilled 17-19 year-old High School
  Students (12. und 13. form)
• Lecturers
• Ariane Frey (CERN)
• Ekkehard Sieker (Physicist, Science Journalist)
• Largest number of applicants (160) for a single
  course, ever16 participants selected, very
  variable a priori knowledge

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Some details

• Organisation
• 3 hours morning, 2 hours afternoon (in between
  sports etc)i.e. over 70 hours total
• 4 seminar talks (a 20 min) by groups of 4
  students, eachprepared w/in course time
• Informal discussions
• 3 hours total work on PC teaching packages(and
  unlimited in free time)
• 32 pages final report, written by students (last
  4 days)
• Content
• Overview, 3-4 days Quantum Mechanics and
  Relativity
• Particles, Forces, Standard Model
• Experiments, Detectors
• Symmetries, Higgs
• Feedback
• Overwhelmingly positive
• Especially appreciated
• Computer based teaching material for repetition
  and in depth studies in free time
• Informal discussions at any time
• Summary Very special format, intensive work,
  successful

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3.) Master Classes Bonn

• Translate Part of Manchester Particle ID package
  into German?Example (some pages new)
• Usual program (embedded in events of Physics
  Department)
• 1 h lecture (for all, about 100-300 students)
• 1.5 h workshop on PC (for a subset)
• 1st event about 40 students (17-18 year olds) in
  2 groups
• 2nd event about 40 students (15-16 year olds) in
  4 groups
• Lot of fun, despite short time available(no
  prior knowledge of particle physics!)
• Could make even basic measurement
• Lepton universality
• R B(hadrons)/B(leptons) 20 15 3
  colors 5 quarks

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4) HEP in school curriculum, 10th form

• Why?
• Last time mandatory physics
• 80 of students (97 of female) drop physics at
  this earliest opportunity
• Topics for 9th and 10th form
• Force, Pressure Energy, Work, Power
• Oscillations, Waves, Acustics
• Radioactivity and Nuclear Energy
• Problems
• Mainly physics of 18. u. 19. century
• Presented in gory details
• Abrupt transition to nuclear physics at end of
  the year
• Global physics picture is missing completely

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Why could particle physics help?

• Refers to most basic questions
• Origin of the universe
• Structure of matter
• What are the fundamental building blocks?
• Structure of forces
• 4 fundamental forces effective forces
• Connection to everyday life
• Radiation (Sun, TV, Radioactivity)
• Application in Medicine
• Relation Forces Types of radioactive decays

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Way to achieve this

• Student Teacher Thesis (Dagmar Schmitz,
  Bonn)comprising
• Concept for 12 hour (6 week) course(need to be
  expanded to 20 hours)
• Supporting Html Web-Pages with
• Teaching and Learning-material
• Interactive Quiz-Pages
• Animations
• Simulations
• gt 100 page thesis with
• Teacher-material
• Student-material
• Experience from an 9 hours trial teaching in a
  10th form

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Concept for 12 (20!) hours

• Introduction and motivation Contexts Big Bang,
  radiation
• Small structures
• Building blocks molecules ? atoms ? fund.
  particles (1.generation)
• Mass energy (Emc²), antimatter
• Radioactivity
• Medical applications, radiation protection
• Nuclear power stations
• Interactions as forces, decay, production (a,
  b, g)
• The Standard Model (and its open questions)
• Identification of particles and interactions
• Cosmology
• Historical background and final discussion

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Experiences and Future

• students very interested in topic
• supporting use of PC positive
• still many basic problems in detail
• Evaluation (Questionnaire)
• interested in modern physics
• general interest in physics increased
• presence of a real scientists well received
• Future
• support from education authorities already
  existing
• broader trial in more schools starting 01/2002
• second iteration of material
• inclusion in next round of curriculum in North
  Rhine Westfalia
• --gt 14 more Bundesländer to do