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| = University of Geneva = | = University of Geneva, Didactique de Sciences Physiques = Teaching Relativity at Secondary Level II/High School Activities and Course Material developed at the University of Geneva In brief: Course material and students activities (accessible with conceptual and mathematical means at secondary level II/high school): http://www.nccr-swissmap.ch/education/highschool/GRcourse A textbook was published in 2018 https://www.ppur.org/produit/876/9782889152094/Cosmologie%20%20relativite%20generale%20 (Documents in French only at this time) Description On the occasion of the centenary of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity (GR), the National Centre of Competence in Research SwissMAP (The Mathematics of Physics) launched a pedagogical project aiming to introduce secondary school pupils to modern cosmology and GR. This project resulted in a course (in French) and a series of activities characterised by an intermediate level of difficulty: striking a balance between a “zero-equations” level suitable for popularising among the general public on the one hand, and tensor geometry exclusive to the academic experts on the other. The material is exclusively based on high-school level mathematics and physics; hence, these activities are not supposed to replace the basic tools taught in at school, but to complement them. |
University of Geneva, Didactique de Sciences Physiques
Teaching Relativity at Secondary Level II/High School Activities and Course Material developed at the University of Geneva
In brief: Course material and students activities (accessible with conceptual and mathematical means at secondary level II/high school):
http://www.nccr-swissmap.ch/education/highschool/GRcourse
A textbook was published in 2018
https://www.ppur.org/produit/876/9782889152094/Cosmologie%20%20relativite%20generale%20
(Documents in French only at this time)
Description On the occasion of the centenary of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity (GR), the National Centre of Competence in Research SwissMAP (The Mathematics of Physics) launched a pedagogical project aiming to introduce secondary school pupils to modern cosmology and GR. This project resulted in a course (in French) and a series of activities characterised by an intermediate level of difficulty: striking a balance between a “zero-equations” level suitable for popularising among the general public on the one hand, and tensor geometry exclusive to the academic experts on the other. The material is exclusively based on high-school level mathematics and physics; hence, these activities are not supposed to replace the basic tools taught in at school, but to complement them.
Dr. Gasparini has developed and tested a course on GR for high school students (and accessible with conceptual and mathematical means at high school), see
http://www.nccr-swissmap.ch/education/highschool/GRcourse.
Students activities are available there, and a textbook was published in 2018
https://www.ppur.org/produit/876/9782889152094/Cosmologie%20%20relativite%20generale%20