LEARNING WITH CERN KICK-OFF MEETING WP2 – first thoughts Peter Watkins University of Birmingham (thanks to Sofoklis for many inputs)

LEARNING WITH CERN KICK-OFF MEETING User requirements report (1 March 09) Pedagogical framework report (1 April 09) Initial Missions (1 April 09) Final Missions (1 Sept 09) WP2 finishes after one year What has to be done -(when!)

LEARNING WITH CERN KICK-OFF MEETING Who has to do it? All of us … BUT University of Birmingham - leads WP2 Special support from Heureka for ‘Science centres’ EA and BMUKK for ‘Schools’

LEARNING WITH CERN KICK-OFF MEETING Where will we do it ? Schools in Greece and Austria (2 schools) Universities in Greece, Sweden, UK Science centres in Finland, Sweden BUT with ‘extended validation exercises it is expected to be presented in many countries’

LEARNING WITH CERN KICK-OFF MEETING How do we get started ? Small workshops with existing scenarios (involve small group of teachers) Allow short time for initial tests User requirements workshops Key input to our pedagogical frameworks and initial missions

LEARNING WITH CERN KICK-OFF MEETING Challenges – personal view Time to do the work – for us and teachers Defining specific user groups in our different countries Selection of initial scenarios/missions

LEARNING WITH CERN KICK-OFF MEETING Defining user groups Schools clearest but … What age? Variation of topic in syllabus in countries Variation in school time available, in class or outside? Universities Target less clear to me. New material for University courses or extra for students to try on their own? Science Centres Individual visitors. Would there be workshops ?

LEARNING WITH CERN KICK-OFF MEETING ATLAS Student Event Challenge Why do these experiments – big questions What do we know now How do the experiments work – LHC, Particle detectors, Grid Computing Interpreting the collisions – visualisation Many interesting things to learn about

LEARNING WITH CERN KICK-OFF MEETING Point 1 activities and perspectives Marzio Nessi ATLAS plenary 2 nd October 2004 Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

LEARNING WITH CERN KICK-OFF MEETING Linac Booster PS SPS LHC

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LEARNING WITH CERN KICK-OFF MEETING

LEARNING WITH CERN KICK-OFF MEETING ATLAS Detecor

LEARNING WITH CERN KICK-OFF MEETING Muon Detectors

LEARNING WITH CERN KICK-OFF MEETING Dimensions Diameter25 m Barrel Toroid length26 m End-cap end-wall chamber span 46 m Overall weight 7000 Tons ATLAS

LEARNING WITH CERN KICK-OFF MEETING E 2 = p 2 c 2 + m 2 c 4

LEARNING WITH CERN KICK-OFF MEETING Exercise needs to be varied and fun! Identifying events visually can be repetitive Web pages need lively style Topic is fascinating - but looking for new physics with event display is very tough!! When students study collisions

LEARNING WITH CERN KICK-OFF MEETING My conclusions Looking forward to this meeting. The collaboration has lots of experience Make use of all our contacts eg CERN high school teachers programme Help from all of you will be needed in the first very short phase of WP2! Thanks to Sofoklis for his help with this session