Introducing 12 year-olds to elementary particles

Description

Introduce the subatomic structure of matter to young students. 

We present a new learning unit, which introduces 12-year-olds to the subatomic structure of matter. The learning unit was iteratively developed as a design-based research project using the technique of probing acceptance. We give a brief overview of the unit’s final version, discuss its key ideas and main concepts, and conclude by highlighting the main implications of our research, which we consider to be most promising for use in the physics classroom.

Read the paper here: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6552/aa6cfe