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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. The main purposes of this project are * To consolidate and enlarge pupils’ existing knowledge in physics and mathematics while studying subjects they find fascinating; * To improve links between high school and real research: students who learn physics up to the 19th century are left with distorted ideas about the main issues in modern physics. A more accurate awareness of what constitutes contemporary physics research (and hence what options are available to pupils after school) can have a strong impact on their choices for further study. This can counterbalance the general loss of interest toward hard sciences. |
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.
The main purposes of this project are
- To consolidate and enlarge pupils’ existing knowledge in physics and mathematics while studying subjects they find fascinating;
- To improve links between high school and real research: students who learn physics up to the 19th century are left with distorted ideas about the main issues in modern physics. A more accurate awareness of what constitutes contemporary physics research (and hence what options are available to pupils after school) can have a strong impact on their choices for further study. This can counterbalance the general loss of interest toward hard sciences.
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