DW D TITLE: PHYSICS RESEARCH COMINIG INTO SCHOOL. Leader and reporter: G. Karwasz a) University Nicolaus Copernicus, Torun, Poland

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1 Physics Research Coming into School 127 Topics: From the atom to the stars: astrophysics at school. Some educational considerations about an astrophysical laboratory for undergraduate students in Italy A proposal about Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry for a second level master in Physics Education Physics of high-energy particle detectors On the Track of Modern Physics Supercomet superconductivity made easy Schools coming to Science Centres DW D TITLE: PHYSICS RESEARCH COMINIG INTO SCHOOL Leader and reporter: G. Karwasz a) University Nicolaus Copernicus, Torun, Poland Contributors: M. Michelini 2, D. Cenadelli 3, Federico Corni 4, V. Engstrøm 5, A. Kami ska 6, A. Karbowski 1, J. Kruk 7, H. Nowakowska 8, G. Osi ski 1, L. Santi 2, A. Testa 3, T. Wróblewski6 1 Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Udine, Italy 2 Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Udine, Italy 3 Istituto di Fisica Generale Applicata, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy 4 Faculty of Education, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy 5 Simplicatus AS, Postboks 27, Løvenstad, Norway 6 Institute of Physics, Pomeranian Academy, Slupsk, Poland 7 Instytut Pedagogiki, Uniwersytet Gdanski, Gdansk, Poland 8 Institute of Fluid Flow Machine, Polish Academy of Sciences, IMP-PAN, Gdansk, Poland 1 INTRODUCTION In many countries, this is for example the case of Poland, the shifting of intellectual interests towards not-strictly-science sciences leads to shrinkage of physics programmes in secondary schools. Obviously, it does not seem reasonable to eliminate from school programmes Galileo s laws of kinematics or Newton s laws of dynamics. At this point, teaching Physics risks to become a kind of mental a) Corresponding author s karwasz@fizyka.umk.pl

2 128 Discussion Workshops exercise more as exemplification of mathematics than introducing into richness of problems of Physics itself. A possible recipe for this dilemma is introducing element of live, i.e. Modern Physics. Several such examples arrive from Italian secondary (lyceum) school system. The work in the DW D workshop Physics research in the classroom was greatly based on these examples. The main contributions to the Workshop came from: 1) Davide Cenadelli and Antonella Testa from Università degli Studi di Milano on Astrophysics 2) Lorenzo Santi and Marisa Michelini from Università degli Studi di Udine on Physics of Elementary Particles 3) Federico Corni from Università degli Studi di Modena on Solid State Physics 4) Andrzej Karbowski, Grzegorz Osi ski and Grzegorz Karwasz from Uniwersytet Miko aja Kopernika, Toru on Quantum Colllisions and on Cosmology In the discussion participants from Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Norway, Poland, Italy took part. In addition to the scientific and didactical matters, the need for exchanging practical information (what kind of equipment, which are the ways of funding) was stressed in the discussion. Finally, we also presented the outcomes of two EU projects developed on Modern Physics [6] and on Superconductivity [7] and Polish Programme on Science Centres. REFERENCES [1] M. Michelini, L. Santi, The Physics of the Physics Detectors, this [2] F. Corni, A proposal about Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry, this [3] D. Cenadelli, M. Zeni, From atoms to stars: Astrophysics at school, this [4] G. Karwasz, H. Nowakowska, G. Osinski, Quantum scattering made easy, this [5] A. Karbowski, G. Karwasz, Kopernik, Michelson and cosmology, this [6] On the Track of Modern Physics Science-and-Society 2005 Project [7] Supercomet2 Leonardo-da-Vinci 2004 Project, /supercomet/

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4 FRONTIERS OF PHYSICS EDUCATION Selected Contributions GIREP - EPEC Conference August, 2007, Opatija, Croatia 4 th GIREP Seminar 2 nd European Physics Education Conference EDITORS Rajka Jurdana-Šepi, Velimir Labinac, Marta Žuvi -Butorac, Ana Sušac Society Golden section Rijeka, Croatia August, 2008

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