e-Infrastructures for an Engaging Science Classroom The
Discover the COSMOS Project is financed by the European Commissions
Framework Programme 7 (FP7) under grant agreement no. 283487. Peter
Watkins University of Birmingham The World Conference on Physics
Education July 1-6, 2012 Istanbul / Turkey
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Science Education in Europe: Challenges & Opportunities
Reverse declining student interest in Science Re-imagine the
science classroom of tomorrow Realise the potential of eScience for
engaging students in scientific inquiry Rocard et al. 2007 Osborne
& Dilon 2008
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Discover the Cosmos Contribution To demonstrate how Europes
e-infrastructures could provide powerful tools for scaling-up
current pilot implementations for effective introduction of
eScience in the school curriculum and development of effective
outreach programmes.
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Aim I: Community Building TeachersStudentsScientists
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Aim II: Effective Integration Science Education e-Science
Activities Research Infrastructures Aim III: Good Practices
Roadmap
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From Telescopes to Accelerators 15 partners 9 countries
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e-Infrastructures Particle Physics Astronomy
www.discoverthecosmos.eu LHCCMS ATLAS Gaia The Faulkes Telescope
The Liverpool Telescope
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e-Science Applications Particle Physics Astronomy
www.discoverthecosmos.eu LTImage Sun for All SalsaJ HYPATIA MINERVA
AMELIA
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Where to find interesting stuff?
http://microcosm.web.cern.ch/microcosm/P10/german/welcome.html
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Discover the COSMOS Portal http://portal.discoverthecosmos.eu/
www.discoverthecosmos.eu
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Education & Outreach Activities Local Demonstrations and
training workshops in schools and teacher training centres eScience
school-based activities National Training/Demonstrations and
e-Masterclasses (e.g. IPPOG ) Contests for secondary school
teachers/students International Contests for teachers/students
Training seminars (e.g. winter/summer schools)
Masterclasses/e-Masterclasses Annual Conferences
www.discoverthecosmos.eu
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Activities: Example 1 Physics Teacher Training Workshop
Germany, Mar 17, 2012 Lectures from active scientists Measurements
on real data from LHC experiments Discussions with scientists and
teaching colleagues Presentation of the Netzwerk Teilchenwelt
(German network for students /teachers in PP) Presentation of
resources usable in classroom www.discoverthecosmos.eu
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Activities: Examples ATLAS Virtual Visits Greece, Apr 04, 2012
Lectures about ATLAS experiment at LHC at CERN Mini Masterclass
with HYPATIA Preview of CERN Mini Expo in Greece Virtual Visit to
ATLAS Control Room www.discoverthecosmos.eu
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Activities: Example 2 ATLAS Virtual Visits Birmingham, Mar 28,
2012 Lectures about LHC experiments at CERN Masterclass with
MINERVA Q&A sessions (small groups) Virtual Visit to ATLAS
Control Room www.discoverthecosmos.eu
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Activities: Example 3 The CERN Mini Expo Tour Greece, Nov 2011
Jun 2012 7 cities; > 25k visitors (inc. >17k students) 12
training workshops for >800 teachers IPPOG Masterclasses for
students and Virtual Visits www.discoverthecosmos.eu
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Activities: Example 4 Discover the Cosmos Summer School Crete,
Jul 01-06, 2012 15h of lectures/demonstrations 10h hands-on
workshops Facilitate teachers/trainers to integrate educational
resources of science centres to the science curriculum
www.discoverthecosmos.eu
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Activities: Example 5 High School Teachers Programme at CERN
Geneva, Jul 01-21, 2012 Physics teachers from member &
non-member states 2-day Hands-On Workshop Creation of inquiry-based
educational scenarios in HEP using eScience tools from LHC
experiments www.discoverthecosmos.eu
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Next Steps Now DtC Demonstrators/Scenarios Cutting edge science
exercises combining eScience tools with IBSE ~15 demonstrators
completed and ready for pilot testing locally, nationally and
internationally Practice Reflection Workshops 4 per country Build
scenarios addressing outcomes of visionary workshops Adaptation of
selected eScience tools/resources to science curriculum Sep12 Feb13
Summative Workshops 1 per country Whole DtC Community involved
Roadmap Document produced Apr13 Aug13
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Thank You! Peter Watkins [email protected]
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