1)The Learning with (finished) 2)The PATHWAY IBSE Project ( started 9 months ago) FP7-Science-in-Society ) Discover_the_COSMOS (just started) Christine Kourkoumelis UoA/IASA The EU projects:

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The students have to answer additional questions, distributed questionnaires:, big success, they want more complications LHC-HYPATIA UoA undergraduate 4 th year laboratory (similar with Birmingham U.) University scenarios Groups of students look at a mixture of REAL Z->ee, Z->μμ and several demo events including one simulated Higgs The students :  compare electron and muon traces in the detector -> to identify electrons/muons  “Discover” Z particles out of different decay modes and make invariant mass histos  “Discover” a Higgs particle out of 10 simulated events 3/20/20163

% The Pathway to Inquiry Based Science Teaching 3 yr project 23 partners 3.4 M Euro Start 1/1/2011 ATLAS+CMS+CERN Teachers only 3/20/2016C.Kourkoumelis,UoA4

The Pathway Science TEACHERS The project is addressed to Science TEACHERS follow up improved their teaching skills It will “educate” teachers to use Inquiry based teaching and follow them up to determine how the new techniques improved their teaching skills and create effective links IASA/Univ. of Athens is responsible to develop activities which promote school- research center collaboration and create effective links between schools and the research community. Connection with CERN is the ideal setting. 3/20/2016C.Kourkoumelis,UoA5

The Pathway to Inquiry Based Science Teaching Pathway is having now its 2 nd consortium meeting (after the kick off). A week long summer school was organized in Crete (with hands-on ATLAS) Visionary workshops’ organization with the teachers finished. In Greece : in Crete, Athens in parallel with the masterclasses and in Chios for the first time by itself. Future activities in the next few months: CERN exhibition, 2-days hands-on ATLAS with some of the 80 teachers who visited CERN this summer in parallel with the European EDEN open classroom conference

7 Discover the COSMOS Discover the COSMOS (Sept 2011-August 2013) FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES coordination action A few words as an introduction: eScience e-Infrastuctures The project aims to introduce innovative ways to encourage young people into science and scientific careers. This will be achieved engaging teachers and students in eScience through the use of e-Infrastuctures which the consortium has already developed in astronomy and high energy physics,and which will be brought to synergy.

Research Infrastructures 3/20/2016C.Kourkoumelis,UoA8 Gaia ( is an ambitious ESA mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, The Liverpool Telescope, is a fully robotic astronomical telescope (located on the Canary Island of La Palma) The Faulkes Telescope Project ( -telescope.com/) is the Education arm of Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network.

eScience Applications (from astronomy) 3/20/2016C.Kourkoumelis,UoA9 SalsaJ is a student-friendly astronomical images analysis tool. LTImage astro/tels/ltimage is a simplified image processing tool The “Sun for all” scientific archive includes over Sun images captured the last 80 years.

eScience Applications (from HEP-ATLAS experiment) 3/20/2016C.Kourkoumelis,UoA10 HYPATIA (Hybrid Pupil's Analysis Tool for Interactions in Atlas) MINERVA atlas-minerva AMELIA is a 3D application

eScience Applications (portals) 3/20/ robotic telescopes The Discovery Space Portal ( The portal offers access to 6 robotic telescopes seamlessly into one virtual observatory and provides the services required to operate this facility. The service has 1,100 registered users (teachers and students). COSMOS Portal ( The COSMOS portal is an experimental laboratory for students and teachers, The Learning with Portal ( contains educational resources, such as access to near real-time data and interactive analysis tools for the ATLAS experiment

 Both new projects are proceeding in parallel.  Need more involvement of CERN (ATLAS+CMS+Education Dept) in the future.  The teachers and students of neary schools have unique opportunities to have access to scientific resources at their door.  Thanks to EU funding, resources ARE available. Conclusions 12

All help from ATLAS people will be appreciated, especially in : connecting to nearby teachers’ community, developing training material etc Last but not Least

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Five essential features: Learner engages in scientifically oriented questions ->provokes curiosity Learner gives priority to evidence in responding to questions. Learner formulates explanations from evidence. Learner connects explanations to scientific knowledge->Investigation Learner communicates and justifies explanations. The essential features of inquiry 3/20/2016C.Kourkoumelis,UoA15