Transcript Outreach in Flandres (Belgium)

Outreach in Flandres
(Belgium)
Rita van Peteghem (HST 1999+2000)
Wim Peeters (HST 2000-2001)
Introduction
Belgium is a Federal state, in which
the communities have control on
educational items, hence
« Flanders »
 Particle physics is NOT on curriculae
now, so some PR is absolutely
necessary
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Outreach Flanders
We did different things:
Texts in regional periodics:schools
 Texts in national periodics: teachers
association, science periodic N&T
 Attend congresses
 Organise teacher trainings
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Outreach Flanders
Most important now is the
teachers training
Two afternoons: one we did, the
other was a lecture on particle
physics by professor Icke (Neth)
 The afternoon:
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3h
 multimedia
 presents
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Outreach Flanders
Background ideas
Teachers are in principle not very
interested in changing their lessons
 There is no time
 Facilities are mostly restricted
 They are fundamentally interested,
else they would not be there
 Operation « charm & catch »
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Outreach Flanders
What did we do?
List of all material we had
 Close look at the curriculum and
analyse what when could be inserted
 Systematically go through the
curriculum and show briefly every
item we could offer to them
 Give them everything we had
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Outreach Flanders
What did we give them?
Syllabus
 Series of 50 slides on CERN
 2 videos with 7 translated films:
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Powers of 10
 Lessons from Nikhef
 LHC
 ...
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Outreach Flanders
They went home with
loads of materials
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A CD with all teaching materials
we could get from last year’s
HST
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transparancies, Powerpoint
presentations, texts, photo’s,lists of
websites,.....
The Dutch cartoon book on
elemetary particles
Folders from CERN
Posters
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What else?
There was a shop where they could
get additional things
 We organized an e-mail newsgroup
to stay in touch with each other
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Outreach Flanders
Spies of other universities
...contacted us afterwards to do the
same thing at the 3 other
universities, so we cover ALL
universities in Flanders
 We were asked to organize a
working group during the biggest
meeting of science teachers of
Flanders.
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Outreach Flanders
What did we learn from
evaluation forms?
Showing that we knew the
difficulties, but that there are
opportunities was a good idea
 The curriculum based chronologic
was new
 The short drops of knowledge we
offered hands-on
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Outreach Flanders
the different forms of multimedia
(slides, video, PowerPoint,
transparancies,...) so that
everybody got something usable
 The lecture the second afternoon to
give more background was also
highly appreciated.
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Wim Peeters HST 2001
Outreach Flanders