External Resources for Citizen Scientists

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2 - Education

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Citizen Scientists

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External Resources for Teachers

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2 - Education

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Teachers

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Create lesson plans and devise activities with material available from: IPPOG, Discover the COSMOS, CERN Education Site, QuarkNet and Go-Lab.
Educational games and material can be found at S'Cool Lab and Quarked. PhD Comics has several illustrations on physics topics and a series called Piled Higher and Deeper on the illustrator Jorge Cham’s visit to CERN. LPPP gives a brief introduction to LHC physics. Particle Adventure is an interactive guide to fundamental concepts in high energy physics.
Teacher programmes: For teachers who are interested in learning about the frontiers of physics and science that hasn’t made it into textbooks yet, take part in CERN's Teachers Programmes, held in the summer in a variety of languages.

External Resources for University Students

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2 - Education

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University Students

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Undergraduate students may be interested in CERN’s academic programmes: Summer School Programme, OpenLab Student Programme and the Academic Training Lectures.
For graduate and PhD students, grants and fellowships that offer financial assistance and the opportunity to learn at CERN are available: Technical Student Programme, Doctoral Student Programme, CERN Accelerator School, CERN School of Computing and the European Schools of High Energy Physics.

External Resources for Secondary Students

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2 - Education

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Secondary Students

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CERN Beamline for Schools competition - CERN offers high-school students from around the world the chance to create and perform a scientific experiment on a CERN accelerator beamline. Register your team to compete.
The Lancaster Particle Physics Package (LPPP) gives a brief introduction to particle physics for students 16-18 years of age (accessible to other age groups, as well).
CERN Students and Educators website