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LA@CERNKick-off meeting 15-

16/12/2008Objectives and outcome

Two year project

C. Kourkoumelis, UoA

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LA@CERN Institutes

University of Athens and Ellinogermaniki Agogi, Greece

University of Bayreuth, Germany

University of Birmingham, UK

Heureka Science Centre, Helsinki, Finland

Ministry of Education, Vienna, Austria

Stockholm University and House of Science, Sweden

European Physical Society

Partners - CERN and LBL (USA)

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LA@CERN pedagogical approach and LA@CERN missionsImplement a set of missions (learning scenarios) tailored to the needs of the diverse groups of learners, employing advanced and interactive visualization technologies and also personalised ubiquitous learning paradigms. In the framework of these missions, learners will be able to use a series of educational analysis tools that allow them to manipulate data and make their own discoveries.

LA@CERN ToolsWill contain educational materials and information, such as access to near real-time data and analysis tools (e.g. AMELIA, ATLANTIS, HYPATIA ), teacher resources (e.g. professional development materials, lesson plans, projects and activities), student-centred materials (e.g. data library, communication area, student’s magazines), applications for educational projects and collaborative activities.

LA@CERN support materialsset of training materials and guides will be created, for all 3 levels. Printed guides and presentations, online material and tutorials for use through the web service. The training will include workshops, demonstrations during teachers training activities, summer schools and conferences and a series of on-line seminars through the Internet.

LA@CERN Dissemination Materials and activitiesWill present project results in conferences and workshops; Results of the project will be

described in academic papers which will be submitted to scientific journals,

LA@CERN Guide of Good PracticeWill map the project’s development and implementation and will analytically describe a series of best practices that will emerge from the validation process. Educational experience through the exploration of “real science”.

Outcomes of the project

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LA@CERN Institutes

Birmingham-led work is concentrated in first six months

Needs several iterations with potential users

Reason for short notice for this first meeting

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Aim of the today’s meeting

Establish a group of interested teachers to work with us on this project – others are very welcome to join us later

Introduce the project aim and some initial tools that can be investigated by you and in some cases your students

We will provide links to these tools on a local web page initially

Informal discussions to provide early feedback/ideas on where to focus our efforts, constraints …

Time is a big challenge – most initial contributions needed in next few months

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A few resources (part 1)http://public.web.cern.ch/public/ CERN

http://atlas.ch/ ATLAS

http://www.particlephysics.ac.uk/teach.html PP RESOURCES

http://www.lhc.ac.uk/ LHC RESOURCES

http://www.particledetectives.net/html/main.html

http://epweb2.ph.bham.ac.uk/user/watkins/seeweb/BubbleChamber.htm

http://hands-on-cern.physto.se/hoc_v21en/index.html HANDS ON CERN

http://www.physicsmasterclasses.org/links/links.htm HANDS ON PP

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A few resources (part 2)

http://lppp.lancs.ac.uk/ PP EXERCISES

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/antenna/bigbang/huntforhiggs/

http://durpdg.dur.ac.uk/lbl/particleadventure/index.html

http://hypatia.phy.bg.ac.yu/ ATLAS EXERCISES

http://eppog.web.cern.ch/eppog/Links.html PP SITES LIST

http://particleadventure.org/other/othersites.html PP SITES LIST

http://ed.fnal.gov/data/ FERMILAB INVESTIGATIONS

http://www.physics.purdue.edu/ret/particle/lesson.htm LESSON PLANS