Age Group 5-12
This page gathers all CERN educational resources for children aged 5 to 12. The materials explain basic physics concepts in a fun and age-appropriate way, including activities, videos, and games suitable for both classroom and home learning.
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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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Playdough Core Sampling
Explore how geologists delve into the mysteries beneath the Earth’s surface.
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Balloon Hovercraft – Power of Air
Explore how air is able to help us lift heavy things by reducing friction.
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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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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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Mystery Boxes
Experiment with mystery boxes to learn about different aspects of nature of science.
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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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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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A balloon hovercraft & the CMS particle detector?! – Solvay DIY video
Learn about the link between a balloon hovercraft and the CMS particle detector, in this short video by the CERN-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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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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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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Elementary particle physics in early physics education – learning unit
Learning unit to introduce 12 year-olds to the subatomic structure of matter.
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Introducing 12 year-olds to elementary particles
Introduce the subatomic structure of matter to young students.
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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.