Hands On Material
Explore interactive, practical activities designed to bring physics and STEM concepts to life. Our hands-on resources let learners experiment, build, and discover through direct experience.
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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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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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Cosmic SOS
Explore electromagnetic radiation and ionising particles through an adventure game presented as a workshop.
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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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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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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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States of Matter
Learn about the different states of matter by experimenting with everyday material.
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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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ATLAS Magnet Model
Build a model of the toroidal ATLAS magnet system using simple materials or a 3D printer.
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Quark Puzzle
Build particle systems from quarks using this quark puzzle.
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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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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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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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LEGO models of LHC detectors
Build your own LEGO model of the LHC detectors!
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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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LHC: Connect the dots!
Learn how a particle detector works and help physicists find Higgs bosons!
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CMS activity book
Discover how the CMS detector is identifying particles with these fun colouring activities.
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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…