Educational Resources Working Group HST2005

THE TASK  Review educational area in the CERN webpage and make suggestions  What to keep  What to discard  What to change  How to organize it

THE PROCESS  Classify resources according to selected criteria.  5 best ones, 5 worst ones and reasons  Analyze structure and navigation  Collect problems found  What is missing

CRITERIA  Who are the resources suitable for? teachers, students or classroom?  What age group are they suitable for?  What subject do they belong to? Relevancy in the curriculum was considered not a suitable criteria as different countries have different curricula. Relevancy in the curriculum was considered not a suitable criteria as different countries have different curricula.

BEST ONES  Bubble chambers Bubble chambers Bubble chambers  Antimatter Antimatter  Using Feynman Diagrams to illustrate particle interactions Using Feynman Diagrams to illustrate particle interactions Using Feynman Diagrams to illustrate particle interactions  The Powers of Tens The Powers of Tens The Powers of Tens  The LHC Game The LHC Game The LHC Game  The Mistery of Antimatter The Mistery of Antimatter The Mistery of Antimatter

NOT THAT GOOD  Playing with Quarks Playing with Quarks Playing with Quarks  Technology Transfer Technology Transfer Technology Transfer  Small Effects in the classroom Small Effects in the classroom Small Effects in the classroom  About the Standard Model About the Standard Model About the Standard Model  The Toolkit to construct Feynman Diagrams The Toolkit to construct Feynman Diagrams The Toolkit to construct Feynman Diagrams  The Universe Game The Universe Game The Universe Game

PROBLEMS FOUND  Very difficult navigation  Confusing structure: not obvious  Language limitations  Search engine does not work  Same resources under different names  Movies are too long

WHAT IS MISSING  Resources translated into a number of languages.  More computer simulations  CERN for Kids section at their level  Famous names at CERN section  Navigational tree  Educational Resources Search engine  Fields such as Brief summary or Keywords to classify and search for resources.

THE OUTCOME  List of recommendations  Proposal of new structure for the page  Proposal of new games

LIST OF RECOMMENDATIONS  Restructure the main page of Education at CERN.  Creation of a Library for Teachers with articles, documents, live lectures, long movies, photos and posters.  Future live webcasts should be broken down into 15 min slots.

PROPOSAL OF STRUCTURE Education at CERN Visits to CERN Educational Resources

VISITS TO CERN VIRTUAL TOUR TEACHERS VisitsPrograms STUDENTS VisitsPrograms

Educational Resources TeachersStudentsLibrary

Teachers Subjects General Physics Particle Physics Cosmology History of Particle Physics

Standard Model Experiments Link Teachers Lab Detectors Bubble Chambers AntimatterAccelerators

NEW GAMES  ILLUSTRATED PLAYING CARDS  BUILDING THE LHC

MICROCOSM SHOP  Why a shop?  The actual shop.

Recommendations for the Shop  More attractive and bigger posters  More postcards, more with tracks, more beautiful  More games and gadgets  Kits for experiments such as Cloud Chamber, Accelerators…  Books and materials for Kids  More books on display in several languages and with a little presentation of the content.  Seating area to look at them  A little summary of each DVD and a DVD station to watch them.  A little guide of microcosm exhibition  A shop on line