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Participant	Galante, Lorenzo
Institution	Dipartimento Fisica, Università di Torino - Via Pietro Giuria, 1 - Torino - Italia - Italy

Session	ED1	Accepted		Order	Time
Talk	Oral abstract	Title	Special Relativity At Accelerators. Teaching Einstein Theory Through Particle Physics Data Analysis
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Abstract	The cognitive processes leading to the understanding of a theory are a complex system. From the teacher point of view the easiest approach is the systematic presentation of the theory itself through teacher-focused taught lectures. Though easy, this method is far from being effective. We can achieve a deeper understanding putting in contact theory and experimental data. This approach gives to the theory the role of an investigation tool in the hands of the learner. The theory becomes a useful instrument for the data codification and interpretation. Building analysis frameworks where to plan the meeting of learners, theory and data is a wonderful educational task, showing high potential in science learning scenarios. In our work, datasets, from pion-Helium nuclei scattering at low energies have been used in order to introduce relativistic kinematic to a set of 50 teacher from three different Italian regions.
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