Age Group 16+
This page gathers all CERN educational resources for learners aged 16 and above. The materials cover advanced physics and STEM concepts through hands-on activities, videos, virtual experiences, and interactive content suitable for both independent study and classroom learning.
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Solvay DIY Experiments Videos
DIY Experiments Videos You can find here the entire collection of short videos published on social media as part of…
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Tinkering Activity: Keeping the LHC cool
Develop scientific reasoning and creative problem-solving skills through tinkering, while learning about thermal insulation and how the LHC is kept…
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A particularly wavy matter
Delve into the physics of everyday waves, discover the strange wave-particle duality of quantum objects, and discuss how radiofrequency cavities…
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Particle Twister
Learn about the Standard Model by playing a particle physics version of the game of Twister!
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Particle Physics Board Game
A card game designed to help you familiarize yourself with the Standard Model of particle physics.
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The LHCb activity book
Discover the LHCb experiment and the physics of matter and antimatter with this fun activity book for kids of all…
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SOLVAY Online Physics Course
Videos about a scientific topic useful to CERN scientists and engineers in 20 to 30 minutes.
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Adventures at low temperatures #2: It is just a phase
Explore the transitions between different phases of matter, and how they can help us draw heat away from the LHC.
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Adventures at low temperatures #1: Keeping it cool
Investigate why the LHC has to be kept at a temperature colder than outer space, and how it manages to…
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Symmetry, in theory
Investigate the symmetries of simple geometric shapes, and use them as a stepping stone to grasp the symmetries of the…
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Electromagnetic Adventures #3: Permanent magnets… in space!
Explore the structure of matter across many length scales to understand how permanent magnets work, and discover along the way…
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Electromagnetic adventures #2: Currents 🔁 Magnets
Learn how electric currents can create magnetic fields as well as the opposite phenomenon – how changing magnetic fields can…
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How to create photons you can see
Learn how light is created, how incandescence (“warm light”) differs from luminescence (“cold light”) and how we use the latter…
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Electromagnetic adventures #1: How to steer a proton
Explore electromagnetic fields, how to control a beam of electrically charged particles and how to design a particle accelerator like…
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Particle Detectives: A low-cost portable science show
Join us as ‘particle detectives’ to explore particles and their interactions, from molecules to CERN.
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Scattering boxes – Seeing the invisible
Explore how balls interact with a hidden structure to develop a scientific model.
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ATLAS Cheat Sheets
Explore concepts from the Standard Model to conservation laws using cheat sheet created by researchers at the ATLAS Collaboration.
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Videos about CERN
Browse through a collection of YouTube videos related to the physics, engineering, applications, and people of CERN.
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Particle Identities
Take the personality quiz to find out which elementary particle you are.
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3D-printable Scattering Experiment
Build a 3D printed setup to perform scattering experiments.
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The Higgs Discovery Explained
Learn about the discovery of the Higgs boson, starting from the role of particle accelerators and ending on the graphs…
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DIY Particle Detector
Build your own particle detector and distinguish between different particle types.
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Dark Matter Jelly Lenses
Learn about dark matter using jelly lenses.
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DIY Cloud Chamber
Build your own cloud chamber with everyday material and make observations.
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Bubble Chamber Pictures for the Classroom
Dive into the fascinating world of bubble chambers and analyse tracks of high-energy particles in your classroom.
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3D-printable Quadrupole Ion Trap
Build a 3D printed quadropole ion trap and trap electrically charged macroscopic particles such as cinnamon of lycopodium spores.
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Mystery Boxes
Experiment with mystery boxes to learn about different aspects of nature of science.
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3D-printed LINAC
Build a fully functional model of a LINAC to demonstrate how charged particles can be accelerated in oscillating electric fields.
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Digital PET Learning Module
Help saving our virtual patient using PET (Positron-Emission-Tomography)!
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360° tour: ATLAS Experiment – Inside CERN’s largest detector!
Explore the ATLAS Experiment at CERN in this 360° guided tour with particle physicist Dr. Sascha Mehlhase!
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360° video – Inside the tunnel, with the team who upgrades the LHC
Watch an immersive experience in 360° from the LHC upgrade in 2019.
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360° from the CMS cavern at CERN – 8K
Watch an immersive experience in 360° from the underground CMS Experiment cavern to watch an international team of scientists, engineers…
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360° from the ALICE Experiment at CERN – 8K
Relive the action of the upgrade of the ALICE Time Projection Chamber during the Long Shutdown 2 in 2020.
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CERN VR-LHC and Grid Computing
Live the challenge of analysing petabytes of data with more than half a million processor cores and go to places…
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CERN VR – Discover the LHC and CMS in 360
Visit the LHC and the CMS experiment with this virtual reality clip.
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The Higgs boson – brochure
Learn about the Higgs boson and the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism, with this brochure from the ATLAS experiment.
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Destination Universe: The Incredible Journey of a Proton in the Large Hadron Collider
Follow a proton at CERN on its adventure from the hydrogen bottle to the LHC!
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Fridge magnets and the LHC?! – Solvay DIY video
Learn about the link between fridge magnets and the LHC, in this short video by the CERN-Solvay Education Programme.
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A leaky bottle & the ATLAS particle detector?! – Solvay DIY video
Learn about the link between a leaky bottle and the ATLAS particle detector, in this short video by the CERN-Solvay…
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Water shrinking & the LHC ?! – Solvay DIY video
Learn about the link between water shrinking and the LHC, in this short video by the CERN-Solvay Education Programme.
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An iron screw & CERN electromagnets?! – Solvay DIY video
Learn about the link between an iron screw and CERN electromagnets, in this short video by the CERN-Solvay Education Programme.
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Paper rings and resonant cavities?! – Solvay DIY video
Learn about the link between paper rings and resonant cavities, in this short video by the CERN-Solvay Education Programme.
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A cardboard spectroscope and antimatter research?! – Solvay DIY video
Learn about the link between a cardboard spectroscope and antimatter research, in this short video by the CERN-Solvay Education Programme.
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A rainbow in a box & the ATLAS detector?! – Solvay DIY video
Learn about the link between a rainbow in a box and the ATLAS detector, in this short video by Solvay…
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Official Youtube Channel of the ALICE Experiment
Learn about the ALICE experiment, its physics objectives and the people involved in its research through the official ALICE Youtube…
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Official Youtube Channel of the LHCb Experiment
Learn about the LHCb experiment, its physics objectives and the people involved in its research through the official LHCb Youtube…
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Official Youtube Channel of CERN
Learn everything about CERN through its official Youtube Channel!
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Official Youtube Channel of the CMS Experiment
Learn about the CMS experiment, its physics objectives and the people involved in its research through the official CMS Youtube…
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CMS event display
Visualise in your browser collision data recorded by the CMS detector.
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Guess Who game with fundamental particles
“Create your own version of the famous “”Guess Who”” game with these fundamental particle cards.”
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CMS Comic Book
With this fun comic book, learn about how the CMS detector was made, its main parts, and what scientists hope…
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ALICE and the Soup of Quarks and Gluons
Learn about the Quark-Gluon Plasma that the ALICE experiment is looking at with this fun cartoon!
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LEGO models of LHC detectors
Build your own LEGO model of the LHC detectors!
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ATLAS Fact Sheets
Learn about different aspects of the ATLAS detector, from its various detector components to the search for the Higgs boson.
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ATLAS Open Data
Analyse real proton-proton collision data from the LHC!
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ATLAScraft
Explore CERN built within the game platform Minecraft.
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Colouring Books and Activities by ATLAS
Enjoy free-to-download colouring books by the ATLAS collaboration, and learn about particle physics and the ATLAS experiment.
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CERN Brochure
Learn about the history of CERN.
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LHC: Connect the dots!
Learn how a particle detector works and help physicists find Higgs bosons!
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Show Drôle de Physique
Learn about the different states of matter with a fun science show in French.
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CMS activity book
Discover how the CMS detector is identifying particles with these fun colouring activities.
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360° panoramas of CERN
Walk through CERN’s accelerator chain with this extensive network of 360 ° panorama photos.
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Introduction of radioactivity by using probability theory – learning unit
Teach radioactivity to your classroom by using probability theory.
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Track inspection: how to spot subatomic particles
Identify tracks of subatomic particles from their ‘signatures’ in bubble chamber photos together with your students.
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Let’s have a coffee with the Standard Model of particle physics!
Discuss in your classroom one of the most famous formulas in physics, the standard model Langrangian.
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Introducing the LHC in the classroom: an overview of education resources available
Introduce the LHC in your classroom with the help of this paper, which links principal components of the LHC to…
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Higgs in a Box: Investigating the Nature of a Scientific Discovery
Bring nature of science into your classroom by discussing the discovery of the Higgs boson and experimenting with mystery boxes.
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3D-printable Laserlab
Build a 3D printed Laserlab, with which you can experiment in the realms of Special Relativity and General Relativity as…