A Particle Physics Course for High-School Students

Description

Welcome to our particle physics course for high-school students – a research-based product of CERN’s Physics Education Research team. It contains 16 chapters with videos and quizzes and covers a core curriculum that introduces you to fundamental questions, such as “What is a particle?” or “What are charges and interactions?”, leading to more applied questions, such as “What is a particle accelerator?” and “What is a particle detector?”.

• Total length: 4 hours
• Target audience: High-school students aged 14-18 years
• Order: Following the original chapter sequence is recommended, as the concepts build progressively on one another.
• Certificate: To qualify for a digital certificate, complete all chapters and submit the accompanying quizzes. The quizzes are self-grading, provide immediate feedback, and include both single-choice (i.e., select the one correct answer) or multiple-choice (i.e., select all correct answers).
• Subtitles: Available in all languages! Simply switch on closed captions and select the auto-translation of the original subtitles in your preferred language.
• Additional course feature: DIY experiments that you can try out at home and further reading materials.
  

Watch the trailer to get an idea of what this course is all about:

Our course has moved to OpenLearn Create, an innovative leading open educational platform, in September 2026 to improve our user experience and infrastructure. If you have started the course before or during the migration, you will need to retake all quizzes on the new platform. We apologies for any inconvenience the migration might have caused.