German Physics on Stage Symposium Physics in School and Society during public science week Physics a

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German Physics on Stage SymposiumPhysics in
School and Society during public science
weekPhysics and Lifehttp//physik-und-leben.de
Deutsches Museum, Munich, 11.10.01

• Michael KobelBonn UniversityOPAL, ATLAS, D0
  European Particle Physics Outreach Group Meeting,
  Geneva, 19.10.2001

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Aims and Program

• Distribute PoS workshop theses translation
  18 video on CD
• Collect feedback, partially in written form
  before symposium, from ministries (federal,
  central), didactics, curriculum responsibles
• Write a Symposium Report (in English) by January
  2002
• Input this to the workshops for Noordwijk, April
  2002
• Program
• 900-1230 closed expert round (about 30 persons)
• Politicians
• Science administrators
• Didactics
• Teachers and Teacher trainers
• Research
• Industry
• ...
• 1430-1630 public discussion (podium and plenum)
• only about 60 persons, but very lifely

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Central Items (my view)

• Start physics education as soon as
  possible(Kindergarten!)
• Need broad teachers training
• Work intensively on public attitude to physics
• Establish international database of modern
  teaching materialphysics on stage institute
• .....
• ? wait for Symposium report
• Suggestion Collect similar feedback from all
  countries