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The 4th African Conference on Fundamental and Applied Physics (ACP2025)

14–20 Sept 2025
UTC timezone

ASP Conference Committee

Session

Training workshop for high school teachers

20 Sept 2025, 09:00

Conveners

Training workshop for high school teachers

  • Kenneth William Cecire (University of Notre Dame (US))
  • Mirjana Povic
  • Julia Ann Gray (ASP)

Presentation materials

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  1. 248. Introductions and registration
    20/09/2025, 09:00
  2. 249. Particle Cards activity
    20/09/2025, 09:20

    Teams of students organize cards depicting fundamental particles based on their characteristics. This activity is a foundation for learning about the Standard Model and parallels the methods used by scientists to organize the elements into the period table.
    Teacher Notes
    [Particle card set for printing][2]

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  3. 250. Physique contemporaine au lycée
    Dr Theophile Kokou AGBOSSOU (Université de Lomé)
    20/09/2025, 10:00
    Invited Talk
  4. 251. Track 1: Astronomy
    Mirjana Povic (IAA, Spain and SSGI, Ethiopia)
    20/09/2025, 10:45

    Session content:
    - Network for Astronomy School Education (NASE) introduction (10min)
    [NASE website][1]
    - Experiment 1: Measuring the luminosity of the Sun with the homemade photometer (20min)
    - Experiment 2: Polarisation of light, includes the use of solar glasses (6min)
    - Experiment 3: Measuring the rotation period and differential rotation of the Sun, includes the use of solar glasses...

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  5. 252. Track 2: Electric Circuits (with particles)
    Kenneth William Cecire (University of Notre Dame (US))
    20/09/2025, 10:45

    10:45 Introduction
    10:55 Measure series circuit
    11:00 Measure parallel circuit
    11:05 Connect RC circuit
    11:10 Voltage decay experiment
    11:30 End

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  6. 253. Share-a-thon Part A: Teacher Reviews of Tracks 1 & 2
    20/09/2025, 11:30
  7. 254. Share-a-thon Part B: Teacher Contributions
    20/09/2025, 11:45
  8. 255. Concluding Discussion
    20/09/2025, 12:15
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