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|content=Lesson 4 of a series of 6 entitled “Astronomy masterclass” (SC0018). | |content=Lesson 4 of a series of 6 entitled “Astronomy masterclass” (SC0018). | ||
|strategy=Session 4 takes a tour of CERN and tries to explain why it is worth spending so much money on one experiment. It then delves deeply into particle physics, looking at sub atomic particles and trying to give understandable analogies as to what these particles are and do. This session and session 5 are together the most complex theoretically and present most challenges to young peoples world views, and as such are often led as much by their questions as by the scripted presentation. | |strategy=Session 4 takes a tour of CERN and tries to explain why it is worth spending so much money on one experiment. It then delves deeply into particle physics, looking at sub atomic particles and trying to give understandable analogies as to what these particles are and do. This session and session 5 are together the most complex theoretically and present most challenges to young peoples world views, and as such are often led as much by their questions as by the scripted presentation. | ||
|Learning Objectives= | |Learning Objectives=By the end of the session students should be able to:<br />• Appreciate that the Big Bang was neither big nor went bang,<br />• Understand why the work at CERN will not destroy the earth, and what they really do there, <br />• Appreciate the discoveries of particle physics and why the Higgs Boson is such a critical thing to try to find. | ||
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